Laos, Vietnam vow to promote key cooperation programmes

PM Sonexay Siphandone (right) meets with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh in Vientiane. - VT

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/Asia News Network): The prime ministers of Laos and Vietnam have agreed to push for further progress in cooperation projects agreed to by both sides at the 45th meeting of the Laos-Vietnam Inter-Governmental Committee on Bilateral Cooperation in January this year.

During talks between Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh in Vientiane on Wednesday (April 5), the two leaders agreed to step up both political and economic cooperation.