Lao leader hails role of VN-Laos Friendship Association

VGP – Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith received a delegation from the VN-Laos Friendship Association led by its President Tran Van Tuy on July 19.

July 20, 2017 3:56 PM GMT+7

Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith receives President Tran Van Tuy, Laos, July 19, 2017

At the reception, a member of the Party Central Committee, and deputy head of its Organisation Commission Tuy affirmed that Viet Nam always bears in mind Laos’s wholehearted support during arduous years.

His association will maintain close coordination with the Laos-Viet Nam' Friendship Asociation to make the bilateral relations last forever, in the interests of the two peoples and for peace, cooperation and development in the region and the world, he added.

The Vietnamese delegation is in Laos to attend the fourth Laos-Viet Nam People-to-People Friendship Festival on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties and the 40-year signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

In turn, Bounnhang Volachith spoke highly of the role of the two countries' Friendship Associations in organising people-to-people exchange activities.

These activities will help educate the two countries’ people, especially young generations, on their special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, he said added.

He expressed his hope that each member of the association will have more practical contributions to further tightening the relationship between the two peoples.

The event will last till July 22 in Xiangkhouang province.

By Vien Nhu