A delegation of former Chinese military experts from Zhejiang , Jiangsu provinces and Shanghai city attended a meeting at the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO)’s office in Hanoi on May 11.
Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has asked Thai Nguyen province to make steadier and faster progress in its development the next five years.
A sombre ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 21 to mark the 65 th anniversary of Southern Resistance Day (September 23).
A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded near a bus terminal in the Iraqi capital on September 8, killing three people and wounding a score of others, police and interior ministry sources said.
Vietnam and Laos can be absolutely proud of their traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation as these ties have stood the test of time and through the ups and downs in history, said a Vietnamese senior official.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 25 sent a message of condolence to his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao over a huge loss of life and property caused by the serious plane crash that occurred in Yichun city.
“Canada and Vietnam have long established ties of educational cooperation”, said Jim Abbott, who is leading a Canadian delegation of parliamentarians and entrepreneurs to visit to Vietnam, from August 22-28.
The Politburo member and standing member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee, Truong Tan Sang, on August 19 received an Angolan delegation led by Secretary of State for Cooperation, Exalgina Gamboa, to Vietnam to attend the 2nd Vietnam-Africa International Conference (VAIC) in Hanoi.
Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Thanh Son and the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Director General William Lacy Swing inked a cooperation agreement on migration in the capital city of Hanoi on August 19.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has regarded the presence of foreign police forces at the ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Public Security as not just a symbol of friendship and cooperation but also a fine gesture of their countries’ solidarity with the Vietnamese.
The Vietnam-Laos traditional, comprehensive and special friendship will be unceasingly developed on the firm foundation laid by late Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Kaysone Phomvihane, and fostered by generations of leaders and people of both countries.