Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 08:16:00
The signed deals include agreements on the Viet Nam – Laos cooperation strategy for 2021 – 2030, and on their bilateral collaboration for 2021 – 2025; agreements between the two ministries of Planning and Investment, and between the Party Central Committee's Office of Viet Nam and the LPRP Central Committee's Office for 2021-25.
Other cooperation documents were a collaboration plan on culture, art and tourism for 2021-25 between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam and the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, another cooperation plan in the field of information between the Ministry of Information and Communications of Viet Nam and the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, and an agreement between the Party Central Committee's Mass Mobilisation Commission and the Lao Front for National Construction’s Central Committee.
On the occasion, a number of Vietnamese and Lao enterprises also sealed their economic contracts.
The top Lao leader is on a two-day official friendship visit to Viet Nam, starting from June 28, at the invitation of Vietnamese Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong and State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
This is the first foreign trip by Sisoulith in his capacity as the Lao Party General Secretary and President for the 2021-26 tenure, which indicates the two countries’ consistent foreign policies of attaching importance to preserving and ceaselessly strengthening the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation./.
