Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Khamchen Vongphosy, Chairman of the Laos-Vietnam Cooperation Committee, and the delegation visiting and working in Vietnam on September 14.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh believes that the visit achieved many positive and substantive results, contributing to further tightening the relationship between the two countries' Cooperation Committees, planning and investment sectors, thereby strengthening the relationship between the two countries, thus increasingly consolidating, cultivating, and strengthening the two countries' great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation.

The Prime Minister believes that despite the complex and unpredictable world situation now, the Lao people's revolutionary Party and the Lao government will successfully implement their plans and tasks under the wise leadership of the Lao People's Party.

The Prime Minister confirmed Vietnam's consistent policy and spend the highest priority for keeping, development of Vietnamese relationships, which is worth the capital.

In the near future, the Prime Minister asked the two Ministries of Planning and Investment, the Joint Committee of the two countries to closely coordinate, promote the two ministries, sectors, localities, and related agencies to actively carry out assigned tasks, increasingly more efficiently than the existing close cooperation mechanisms. well-prepared for the 46th Vietnam-Lao Intergovernmental Committee meeting, well completed the agreement on the Vietnam-Lao Cooperation Plan 2023, contributing to the concrete formulation of senior leadership agreements with products, concrete results and new breakthroughs.

In which, the Prime Minister emphasized that the economic connection between the two countries, especially the connection between the two countries, such as the highway system, the Vientiane-Vung Ang railway deployment research, should be strengthened; solving problems and obstacles to promote core cooperation and startup projects, to implement new cooperative projects; to promote investment activities of enterprises of both countries with appropriate priority mechanisms and policies; to promote mutually complementary strengths in markets and raw materials; to implement measures to increase trade volume growth between the two countries, etc. to help each other overcome difficulties, challenges, and contribute to helping each country build an independent, autonomous, proactive, and active international integration of broad, substantial and comprehensive economic development.

The Prime Minister asked the two countries to continue strengthening, strengthening political, diplomatic and contractual relations at ministries and localities; promoting the pillars of defense, security cooperation; close coordination, and ensuring political, security, order and social stability in each country, especially border security; close coordination. be effective at multilateral forums.

Minister Khamchen Vongphosy thanked the Prime Minister for his time; congratulated Viet Nam's recent achievements in building and developing the country and the recent results of integration and foreign affairs; sent greetings and greetings from Lao's Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

The Minister announced the results of the mid-term meeting of the Committee for Cooperation between the two countries; asked the Vietnamese side to continue to actively support Laos in the organization of the ASEAN President's Year 2024.

The Minister stated that the Lao Planning and Investment Ministry, the Lao-Vietnam Cooperation Committee, and he would personally continue to contribute to promoting cooperation between the two countries, formulating agreements and directions of senior leaders of the two countries, including the contents of which the Prime Minister had expressed his opinion, ceaselessly strengthened the great friendship. Special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos forever green, sustainable life.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam is always on the side of supporting Laos according to its ability, including supporting and supporting Laos to successfully serve as ASEAN President in 2024.

On this occasion, through the Minister, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sends his greetings and greetings to the General Secretary, Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith, Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and his party and state leaders.