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Vietnamese, Lao armies cement ties

Vietnam and Laos have agreed to promote cooperation between their army units and enhance security links with the aim to build a shared borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development.
Vietnam and Laos have agreed to promote cooperation between theirarmy units and enhance security links with the aim to build a sharedborderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development.

Theagreement was reached during talks between Sen. Lieut. Gen. Ngo XuanLich, Chief of the General Department of Politics under the VietnamPeople’s Army (VPA) and Lao Deputy Defence Minister and Director of theGeneral Politics Department of the Lao People’s Army (LPA) SengneunSaynhalath in Luang Prabang on June 25.

The two sides agreedto continue stepping up education and popularisation to raise awarenessof the importance of strengthening the special relationship between thetwo nations and between the two armies in particular in the newsituation.

They reached the consensus on well organisingactivities to celebrate the 60 th traditional day of the LPA and the 70th founding anniversary of the VPA.

The two sides willincrease the exchange of delegations and closely coordinate in searchingand repatriating the remains of Vietnamese soldiers who died in Laosduring the war in an effort to accomplish their target of searchingthe remains of 1,000 remaining Vietnamese martyrs.

Reviewingbilateral cooperation in 2012, both sides agreed that the two countriescarried out a wide range of practical activities to mark the 50 thanniversary of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties and 35 years of the signingof their Friendship and Cooperation Treaty.

In the2012-2013 dry season, the two sides have coordinated in exhuming theremains of 413 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers, raising the number ofmartyr remains collected in Laos since 1994 to over 16,000.-VNA
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