The local official thanked the Lao delegation for attending thecommemoration, adding that the Vietnamese people always remember thespecial relationship between the two countries.
HCMCity will continue educating the young generation about the nations’traditional friendship, and it hopes that bilateral ties will beintensified in the future, he said.
BounnhangVorachith, who is also a Lao Politburo member and Standing member of theLao People’s Revolutionary Party Secretariat, considered Vietnam’ssuccessful organisation of the celebration as a good example that Laoswill hope to follow when observing its own 40th National Day inDecember.
He appreciated HCM City’s assistance tohis country in personnel training and the development of the capital,Vientiane, and Champasak province.
Laos will alsostep up teaching about the countries’ special relations to its youth, hesaid and wished the Vietnamese southern city vigorous growth in thetime ahead.
Also on April 30, Chairman of the HCMCity People’s Committee, Le Hoang Quan, received Cambodian Deputy PrimeMinister Men Sam An, who also participated in the commemorations.-VNA