NA Chairman leaves for CLV Parliamentary Summit, Laos and Thailand visits

The summit focuses on strengthening the role of the National Assembly of the three countries of Cambodia - Laos – Vietnam in promoting cooperation, partnership, solidarity and prosperity.

Since 2021, the relationship between the three Parties and the three countries of Cambodia - Laos - Vietnam continues to be strengthened across multiple fields via Party, National Assembly and Government channels.

In 2022, Vietnam coordinated with the two countries to successfully launched a broad array of activities in the Vietnam - Laos Solidarity and Friendship Year and the Vietnam - Cambodia Solidarity and Friendship Year thereby creating a more profound understanding among the people, especially the younger generation about the special relationship between Vietnam - Laos and between Vietnam and Cambodia.

The three countries continue to implement trilateral cooperation mechanisms as a contribution to promoting their cooperative relations,  as well as establishing a number of new trilateral cooperation mechanisms such s the CLV Parliamentary Summit of the three countries and the first organization of a training program for young cadres of the three nations.

The Vietnamese top legislator’s attendance in the first summit is designed to reinforce the friendship, solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation while promoting the sharing of legislative, supervisory, and practical information and experience among the three parliaments in order to boost the partnerships in politics - diplomacy, socio-economic development, defence - security, and people-to-people exchanges for their countries’ sustainable development in the CLV Development Triangle Area and the three economies’ connectivity.

His participation also aims to accelerate and supervise the implementation of cooperation agreements and projects signed among the three governments, boost coordination in the enforcement of the international multilateral deals to which all the three countries are parties, and discuss ways for mobilising capital sources from partners in and outside the CLV region for the programmes and projects of the Development Triangle Area and other priority cooperation fields.

During the working trip to Laos, Chairman Hue is scheduled to have talks and meetings with leaders of the Lao Party, State, and NA to outline some directions and measures aimed at augmenting the two countries’ cooperation in the time ahead.

He will also join in meetings with some Lao people who used to study in Vietnam and the Vietnamese businesses and people in the neighbouring country.

Meanwhile, the trip to Thailand is his first official visit there as the NA Chairman of Vietnam, and also the first to Thailand by a Vietnamese leader since this country set up a new Government. It is of importance as both sides are stepping up the action plan on carrying out the enhanced strategic partnership for the 2022 - 2027 period, and implementing practical activities in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the strategic partnership (2013 - 2023).

The official visit to Thailand aims to continue implementing the foreign policy set at the 13th National Party Congress, actively consolidating and expanding political ties as the foundation and fostering effective and practical bilateral cooperation across the board and on all the channels of the Parties, parliaments, governments, and people-to-people exchanges.