VOV.VN - Border forces operating in the central province of Quang Tri said on July 25 that they have smashed a major drug trafficking ring which had been transporting illegal substances into the nation from Laos, arresting three Vietnamese nationals in the process.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 25 received General Chansamone Chanyalath, Deputy PM and Minister of National Defence of Laos, who came to attend the state funeral for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet, who is also head of the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) delegation of Vietnam, attended the Meeting of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) Commission and the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Interface with the Representatives of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR).

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong has contributed to raising the position of the CPV which is recognised by major powers as the political party to lead the nation’s socialist-oriented development, according to a Lao official. ​

VOV.VN - Laos and Cambodia have praised Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s outstanding contributions to cultivating the close relations between Vietnam and their countries, as well as between the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Laos People’s Revolutionary Party and the Cambodian People’s Party.

VOV.VN - General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is a talented politician and diplomat, an exemplary leader of Vietnam, said Assoc. Prof., Dr. Saikhong Sainasin, vice president and general secretary of the Laos - Vietnam Friendship Association, in a recent exchange with a VOV correspondent in Laos.

VOV.VN - Laos is set to observe a period of national mourning for General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong on July 25 and June 26, Minister and head of the Lao Prime Minister's Office Bouakhong Nammavong announced at a press briefing held in Vientiane on July 22.

After the passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the Vietnamese community in Vientiane, Laos, has come together to mourn the loss of an exemplary figure, a distinguished disciple of President Ho Chi Minh.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s devotions and contributions to Vietnam have engineered the nation’s development, making the overseas Vietnamese (OVs), including those in Laos, glow with immense pride in the respected leader.

Vanxay Tavinyan, Vice Chairman of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Training, has emphasised the epochal significance of the 1954 Geneva Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam, as well as the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in the signing of the document.