
Hue made the statement while receiving Chairmen of the LaoNA’s Foreign Affairs Committee Sanya Praseuth and of the Cambodian NA’sCommission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation Sous Yara in Hanoi onOctober 21. The guests visited Vietnam to attend an October 18 consultationmeeting between the foreign affairs committees of the three NAs.
At the reception, Chairman of the Vietnamese NA’s Committeefor Foreign Affairs Vu Hai Ha said the consultation agreed to propose theestablishment of a mechanism for periodic high-level meetings between the parliaments.
Commending the three countries’ parliamentary cooperation, Haand his Lao and Cambodian counterparts highlighted the necessity and importanceof the mechanism for the law-making bodies to discuss and work together informulating policies and laws, monitoring and promoting the effectiveimplementation of bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements of thenations.
The upgrade of the collaboration mechanism among the countries’NA committees to the NA level in such fields as foreign politics, finance,budget, and national defense and security will contribute to consolidating andpromoting their friendly and traditional relationship, they said.
Hue suggested the sides continue backing one another at multilateralforums like the AIPA, IPU, and APPF, and supporting each other's stances onregional and international issues of common concern./.