Suwandi Sisawat, Vice Chairman of the CentralCommittee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, granted first-classLabour Orders to Director of the Ho Chi Minh Museum Chu Duc Tinh,Director of the museum’s Display and Application Centre Nguyen KhacThinh, and the museum staff - all of whom have played an influentialrole in establishing museums in Laos.
Dam Duc Vuong,former Deputy Director of the Institute of Ho Chi Minh and theParty Leaders, received the second-class Labour Order.
The Kim Lien Memorial Site in the central province of Nghe An, thebirthplace of President Ho Chi Minh, was presented with the third-classLabour Order.
Two Labour Medals and six certificates of merit were also given to the museum staff.
In the past, Vietnam has helped Laos to build the President KaysonePhomvihane Museum, the President Souphanouvong Memorial Site and the HoChi Minh Memorial Site in the Nongbok district of Khammouane province.
On the same day as the presentations, Sisawat, who isalso chairman of the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum, signed a cooperationagreement with Ho Chi Minh Museum director Tinh linking the two museumsfor the 2014-2015 period.-VNA