Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister TrinhDinh Dung has described Lao’s National Assembly (NA) House, to be built withthe support of the Vietnamese Party, State, Government, National Assembly andpeople, as a symbol of the special solidarity and friendship between the twocountries.
The Deputy PM made the comment while receiving LaoNA Vice Chairman Somphan Phengkhamy, who is head of the steering board for theconstruction of the Lao NA Assembly House, in Hanoi on May 14.
He said as construction of the 100 million USDproject is scheduled to begin on July 18 and be handed over to the Lao side inthe first quarter of 2020, the Lao side should quickly approve the project’sdesign and planning to promptly transfer them to Vietnam.
The official stressed that the Politburo of theCommunist Party of Vietnam attaches importance to the projects, which will havethe Ministry of Construction as the project’s main investor and Corps 11 of theMinistry of National Defence as the constructor.
Vietnam will send officials of the ConstructionMinistry to Laos to work on the roadmap for the construction and the schedulefor the ground breaking ceremony, Dung noted.
Somphan Phengkhamy said the launch of the Lao NAHouse will be a major activity in various events to celebrate several biganniversaries in Laos-Vietnam relations in 2017.
According to him, Laos has established a board forthe project and projected July 18 as the possible date for the ground breakingceremony.-VNA
