Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc presents souvenir for Somphon Keomisay, Head of the Lao War Veterans Association. (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

(VNA)— Vietnam and neighbouring Laos and Cambodia must intensify efforts to strengthen friendship and co-operation to achieve further development, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said yesterday while meeting with delegations from the Lao War Veterans Association and Cambodian War Veterans Association attending the Vietnam War Veterans Association's National Congress. Phuc expressed his hope that veterans of the three countries will always look after their traditional relations so that they will develop more practically and comprehensively.