High-level talks promote Vietnam-Laos ties
(VOV) - Vietnam and Laos will work closely together to improve the efficiency of their cooperation, especially in economics, and effectively implement high-level agreements.
The agreement was reached during talks in Hanoi on December 26 between Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his Lao counterpart Choummaly Sayasone who is in Hanoi for an official visit to Vietnam.
They said both sides will speed up the implementation of the 2011-2015 cooperation agreement, a Government-level agreement on economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation for 2013, and a Vietnam-Laos cooperation strategy in Houaphanh and Xieng Khouang provinces of Laos.
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They agreed to accelerate Vietnamese-invested projects in Laos, and examine recent joint investment projects, primarily in mining and power generation, to make suitable adjustments, meeting the two countries’ requirements.
They underlined the need to introduce special incentives to attract investment in the Development Triangle Area, and coordinate closely with other countries within the Mekong subregion, East-West Economic Corridor, and other multilateral cooperation frameworks.
Vietnam and Laos need to increase high-level political delegation exchanges to share information and experience in Party building, national industrialization and modernization, as well as international integration, the leaders said.
They need to educate their people about joint historic works on Vietnam-Laos relations, and promote cooperation in human resource training, considering this one of the priority areas to lay a firm foundation for a long-standing relationship between the two countries.
Both host and guest affirmed that the Parties, States and people of Vietnam and Laos will do their utmost to maintain and build up their special friendship, for prosperous development in each country and for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the rest of the world.
Party leader Trong described Sayasone’s current visit as an important political event in the Vietnam-Laos Friendship and Solidarity Year 2012 and expressed his belief that the visit will help bring bilateral ties to a new height.
He congratulated Laos on its marked achievements in implementing Party resolutions on socio-economic development in 2011-2015, the recent successful organization of the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), and the recent admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
These achievements create the prerequisite for Laos to develop further in the future, and at the same time serve as a source of encouragement to Vietnam’s implementation of its current Doi Moi (Renewal) process, said Trong.
For his part, Sayasone, who is also President of Laos, briefed his host on Laos’ major development and thanked Vietnam for its valuable assistance and whole-hearted support to Laos during the latters’ past struggle for national liberation and national unification, as well as at the current process of national development and construction.
He expressed his belief that the two countries’ people will record greater achievements in implementing Party resolutions so as to meet major targets set by their Party Congresses.
Sayasone invited Trong to visit Laos, and the visit was accepted with pleasure.
In the evening, Party leader Trong gave a banquet in honour of Sayasone and his entourage.
Choummaly Sayasone began an official visit to Vietnam on December 26 at the invitation of Nguyen Phu Trong.