Vientiane (VNA) – Vietnam and Laos should elevate the relationsbetween their armies to a new height to prevent sabotage plots by hostileforces that harm the special friendship and solidarity between the two nations,said Lao Minister of Defence General Chansamone Chanyalath.
In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency’s correspondents, he saidthat in the context of complicated and unpredictable developments in the regionand the world, the cooperation must be promoted towards a tighter and moreeffective manner to step up actions against wrong and distorted allegations by hostileand reactionary forces.
The move will help ensure national independence, stability and development ineach country, he stressed.
He hailed the sound collaboration between the two armies in the past years,especially the wholehearted support that Vietnamese volunteer soldiers andexperts provided for the Lao People’s Army (LPA) in the struggle against theenemies and traitors to gain national independence in 1975.
In addition, Vietnamese friends always stand side by side with the LPA duringits 70 years of development, helping it attain strategic victories, heunderlined.-VNA