General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong (R) welcomes General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith. Photo:VNA

The important event helps to enhance and deepen the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties, States and people of Vietnam and Laos.

The leaders briefed each other on the situation of their respective Party and country, including Party building and socio-economic development; exchanged views on the world and regional situation and contents of mutual interest; assessed the results of bilateral cooperation in recent times; and agreed on major orientations for the time ahead.

The Vietnam-Laos relationship is an invaluable asset of the two peoples, an objective necessity, a historical rule and the greatest source of strength of the two Parties and countries that needs to be promoted and passed on to future generations, they affirmed.

At the meeting, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone agreed that in the context of the current situation, the two Parties and countries need to continue promoting good traditions and reinforcing solidarity, close coordination and mutual support.

They stressed the need to develop political relations, enhance the pillars of cooperation in defense, security and foreign affairs, create breakthroughs in economic collaboration, and intensify partnership in education, culture, science and technology and people-to-people exchanges on the basis of unlocking the potential and strengths of each country.