Vietnam, Laos step up experience exchange on mass mobilisation
Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairwoman of the committee's Commission for Mass Mobilisation Bui Thi Minh Hoai held talks with President of the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) Central Committee Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune in Hanoi on April 26.
Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairwoman of the committee's Commission for Mass Mobilisation Bui Thi Minh Hoai (R) and President of the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) Central Committee Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune at their meeting in Hanoi on April 26 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Secretary of the Party CentralCommittee and Chairwoman of the committee's Commission for Mass Mobilisation Bui Thi Minh Hoai held talkswith President of the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) Central Committee Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune in Hanoi on April 26.
Affirming that Vietnam strongly and comprehensively supportsLaos' reform process, Hoai emphasised the importance of the countries’ specialsolidarity, contributing to each country’s maintaining of stability,socio-economic development, and expansion of foreign relations andinternational integration.
Appreciating Laos’s great support for Vietnam in the past andthe current time, Hoai stated Vietnam will do its best to join Laos inpreserving and cultivating their special solidarity toward effectiveness and practicaloutcomes across all fields.
In response, Khoutphaythoune expressed his delight at theexpansion of the bilateral ties and thanked Vietnam for assisting his countryin its past struggle for independence and current national reform, protectionand development.
The two officials exchanged information on the situations oftheir nations and parties as well as the outcomes of joint works between the Commissionfor Mass Mobilisation and LFNC so far. They also discussed cooperation direction in the time to come, particularly regarding the implementation of theresolutions of their parties’ national congress.
The sides agreed to strengthen information exchange, shareexperience on mass mobilisation, cooperate for mutual support, and directVietnamese and Lao localities to team up in running communications campaignsand educating the two countries' people on the importance and vital meaning of the nations’relationship.
They affirmed that they will work closely to effectively carryout high-level agreements between the two Parties and countries as well asbetween the commission and the front for the 2021-2025 period, contributing todeepening the bilateral great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensivecooperation./.
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Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairwoman of the committee's Commission for Mass Mobilisation Bui Thi Minh Hoai (R) and President of the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) Central Committee Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune at their meeting in Hanoi on April 26 (Photo: VNA) 
