VOV.VN - Vietnamese and Lao Prime Ministers have reaffirmed both nations' consistent policy of attaching great importance to and giving the top priority to the consolidation and cultivation of the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation.

The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations held a gathering on January 10 marking the 44th anniversary of the National Day of Cuba (January 1, 1959-2023).

The upcoming Lao visit by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is of special significance to the Laos-Vietnam partnership, Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Saleumsay Kommasith told Vietnam News Agency.

VOV.VN - Japan is Vietnam’s extensive strategic partner for peace, and Vietnam always places great importance to the relations across the board.

VOV.VN - Daily Cambodian newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea (Light of Cambodia) has published an article highlighting its deep friendship with Vietnam, emphasising the significance of the January 7 victory 44 years ago, along with the role of local volunteer soldiers in the liberation and revitalisation of modern Cambodia.

People-to-people diplomacy will focus on activities in service of national socio-economic development in 2023, President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga has said.

VOV.VN - Last year saw citizen diplomacy prosper alongside the two pillars of Party diplomacy and State diplomacy to make a breakthrough after a long hiatus, thereby making substantial contributions to the process of recovery and socio-economic development of the country following the pandemic.

An art performance programme spotlighting the Vietnam - Laos solidarity was jointly held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos, the Vietnamese association in Vientiane and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 28 in the Lao capital.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and India must deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership, especially in terms of economic co-operation, to gradually bring the two-way trade turnover to more than US$15 billion, a figure which has been maintained for years.

Senior officials of central Quang Tri province and Laos’ Savannakhet and Salavan provinces held talks in the Vietnamese locality’s Dong Ha city on December 27, during which they signed cooperation agreements in various fields for 2023-2025.