Fifth Vietnam-Laos People Friendship Festival concludes
A ceremony was held in Laos’s Savannakhet province on September 29 to wrap up the fifth Vietnam-Laos People Friendship Festival and celebrate the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year, the 60th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 45th of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between the two countries.
An art performance at the opening of the festival. (Photo: VNA)
Quang Tri (VNA) – A ceremony was held in Laos’s Savannakhet province on September 29 to wrap up the fifth Vietnam-Laos People FriendshipFestival and celebrate the Vietnam-Laos, Laos-Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year, the 60th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 45th of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between the two countries.
Addressing the event, Lao Minister of Technology andCommunications Boviengkham Vongdara, who is also President of the Laos-Vietnam Friendship Association, highlighted the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries, which have been growing despitecomplicated developments in the world and regional situation.
He underlined that the fifth Vietnam-Laos People FriendshipFestival was a success, giving a chance for both sides to meet and review theircooperation and mutual support tradition from the past struggle for national independence to the current cause of national development.
For his part, President of the Vietnam-Laos FriendshipAssociation Tran Van Tuy expressed his belief that people’s organisations ofVietnam and Laos will continue to work hard together to organise more practicalactivities to enhance public awareness, especially among youngsters, of thetradition and the significance of the ties between the two countries as aunique relationship in the world history.
It is necessary to continue to connect Vietnamese and Lao people, businessesand youths and encourage them to join hands inmaintaining, reinforcing and developing the great friendship, specialsolidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two nations, thuscontributing to the sustainable development in each country, he said.
The fifth Vietnam-Laos People Friendship Festival, whichtook place from September 27-30 in Quang Tri province of Vietnam andSavannakhet province of Laos, was jointly organised by the Laos-Vietnam Friendship Associationand the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association.
Many activities were held within the festival’s framework,including presenting gifts to the needy in border areas of the twocountries, visiting museums, and paying tribute to late leaders of the twocountries and heroic martyrs./.
The fifth Vietnam-Laos People Friendship Festival opened in the central province of Quang Tri, which borders Laos’ Savannakhet and Salavan provinces, on September 28.
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An art performance at the opening of the festival. (Photo: VNA) 
