Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association

Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith has spoke highly of the role of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association in organising people-to-people exchange activities.
Top Lao leader hails role of Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association ảnh 1Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith (R) and President Tran Van Tuy of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association (Photo: VNA)
 
Vientiane (VNA) – Party General Secretary and President of Laos BounnhangVolachith has spoke highly of the role of the Vietnam-Laos FriendshipAssociation in organising people-to-people exchange activities.

Theseactivities will help educate the two countries’ people, especially younggenerations, on their special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, he saidat his reception on July 19 for a delegation from the association led by itsPresident Tran Van Tuy.

Heexpressed his hope that each member of the association will have more practicalcontributions to further tightening the relationship between the two peoples.
Tuy,who is a member of the Party Central Committee, and deputy head of itsOrganisation Commission, affirmed that Vietnam always bears in mind Laos’s wholeheartedsupport during arduous years.
[Ceremony celebrates Vietnam-Laos diplomatic relations]

Hisassociation will maintain close coordination with the Laos-Vietnam FriendshipAssociation to make the bilateral relations last forever, in the interests ofthe two peoples and for peace, cooperation and development in the region andthe world, he added.

TheVietnamese delegation is in Laos to attend the fourth Laos-Vietnam People-to-PeopleFriendship Festival on the occasion of the 55th anniversary ofbilateral diplomatic ties and the 40-year signing of the Treaty of Amity andCooperation.

Thefestival will last till July 22 in Xiangkhouang province.-VNA
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