Lao leader visits Ho Chi Minh City

Lao Peoples Revolutionary Party (LPRP) General Secretary and State President Choummaly Sayasone and his entourage began their visit to Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of June 21.

The delegation was warmly welcomed at the Reunification Palace by Nguyen Minh Triet, Secretary of the citys Party Committee, and Le Thanh Hai, Chairman of the city Peoples Committee.

Triet, who is also a Party Politburo member, expressed his delight of the fruitful cooperation between HCM City and Vientiane capital and Champasak province of Laos in many fields, especially healthcare and education.

He affirmed that the HCM City Party, authorities and people will create the most favourable conditions for cooperative programmes between the city and Lao localities.

The Lao leader said that the effective cooperative programmes between HCM City and Vientiane and Champasak province have brought in changes in socio-economic development and lives of the Lao people.

He also expressed his wish that the friendship and cooperation between Vietnamese and Lao localities will continue to develop, making an important contribution to maintaining the two countries political stability and economic development, and raising their positions in the region and the world.

The delegation visited the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone and the Teacher Training University in the city.

(Source: VNA)