Nghe An Provincial leaders received the Minister and Head of the Lao Prime Minister's Office
(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of September 8, the leaders of Nghe An province received a working delegation from the Office of the Prime Minister of the Lao PDR led by Comrade A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat - Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Minister, Head of the Office of the Prime Minister. Also attending were Deputy Head of the Government Office Nguyen Xuan Thanh and a number of officials from the Office of the Government of Vietnam.
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| Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee welcomed Comrade A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat - Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Minister, Head of the Office of the Lao Prime Minister and his wife. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Receiving the delegation, on the side of Nghe An province were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Dang Thanh Tung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Chief of Office of the Provincial People's Committee; Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs, representative leaders of the Provincial Border Guard Command.
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| Panorama of the reception for the working delegation of the Minister and Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Lao PDR. Photo: Thanh Duy |
In the warm atmosphere of friendship of the Laos - Vietnam, Vietnam - Laos solidarity year, Minister and Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Lao PDR A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat expressed his joy when visiting and working in Vietnam in general and Nghe An province in particular.
This visit aims to continue promoting the relationship between the two sides, contributing to deepening the Laos-Vietnam relationship; at the same time, organizing an "International workshop to exchange experiences in consulting and synthesizing work to serve the Government and the Prime Minister" of the Lao Prime Minister's Office and the Vietnamese Government Office.
In particular, the Vietnamese Government Office is an agency with a lot of experience in applying information technology, digital transformation, digital economy, digital society, and building e-government; therefore, the workshop will contribute to improving the capacity of the Lao Prime Minister's Office.
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Comrade A-lun-xun-na-lat discussed with Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy and leaders of Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Returning to Nghe An this time, comrade A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat highly appreciated the socio-economic development of the province in recent times. Especially from 2018 up to now, despite the context of many difficulties and challenges, Nghe An has developed very quickly.
On this occasion, the Minister and Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Lao PDR thanked Vietnam, including Nghe An, for always providing valuable support and assistance, always standing shoulder to shoulder with Laos, both in the resistance wars as well as in the current cause of national construction and development.
On the basis of the close and friendly relationship and cooperation, comrade A-lun-xa-xun-na-lat proposed to continue to promote Vietnamese enterprises in general and Nghe An enterprises in particular to seek investment opportunities in Laos, especially in the agricultural sector.
He also hoped that Nghe An would continue to provide scholarships for Lao students to study at universities and colleges in the area; and at the same time continue to pay attention to Lao students studying in Nghe An. Thereby, contributing to training human resources for Laos to develop the country's economy and society.
Along with that, the Covid-19 epidemic has now been controlled, he hopes that the two sides will coordinate to promote tourism to increase exchanges between the two peoples.
With deep affection for Nghe An, the Minister and Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Lao PDR sincerely wishes the province further development and continued important contributions to the growing Laos - Vietnam relationship.
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Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy talks with comrade A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat. Photo: Thanh Duy |
On behalf of the provincial leaders, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy expressed his joy in welcoming comrades A-lun-xun-na-lat and Nguyen Xuan Thanh, along with the working delegation of the Lao Prime Minister's Office and the Vietnamese Government Office to organize the "International workshop on exchanging experiences in staff work and synthesis to serve the Government and the Prime Minister" in Nghe An.
With sincere thanks for your good opinions, assessments and feelings about Nghe An, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy introduced some characteristics of natural conditions and socio-economic development of the province.
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Comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee presented souvenirs to comrade A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat and his wife. Photo: Thanh Duy |
In particular, Nghe An is the largest province in Vietnam, with the 10th largest economic scale in the country; it has a border adjacent to 3 provinces of Laos: Hua Phan, Xieng Khouang and Bolikhamxay, the longest in Vietnam with more than 468 km.
The terrain, history and culture of the border area between Nghe An and the localities of neighboring Laos have many similarities. The people here live in harmony and closeness; there is a long-standing close neighborly relationship, so there is often economic and cultural exchange in many rich forms.
Promoting the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos; the friendship and cooperation between Nghe An and Lao localities are always maintained and developed.
Up to now, in addition to traditional cooperation with three provinces sharing the border, namely Hua Phan, Xieng Khouang, Bolikhamxay, Nghe An has expanded its cooperative relations with the provinces of Vientiane, Khammouane, Savannakhet, Xay Som Bun in many fields such as: trade, education - training, health, national defense - security;...
The import and export turnover between Nghe An and Lao provinces in the first 8 months of 2022 reached nearly 49 million USD. Since 2017, Nghe An has been receiving and training a total of about 1,200 Lao officials and students to study at universities and colleges in the province. In the first 8 months of 2022 alone, 210 Lao officials and students received full scholarships and training from Nghe An province.
Based on those cooperative relationships, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy said that Nghe An will pay close attention to increasing the arrangement and supporting more resources to receive Lao students to study at universities and colleges in the province.
Nghe An has 20 enterprises directly investing and doing business in Laos in the fields of mineral exploitation, processing industry, transportation, tourism, etc. with a total investment capital of more than 86 million USD. The head of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee said that in the coming time, the province will strengthen, connect, and introduce Nghe An enterprises to study investment in Laos, especially in the field of agriculture as proposed by the Minister, Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Laos.
In addition to economic activities, the Provincial Party Secretary said: Nghe An pays attention to cooperation with Lao localities in health, defense, and security. Currently, there are 21 pairs of villages on both sides of the border and 8 pairs of border posts and border guard companies signing agreements to build a peaceful and friendly border.
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Leaders of the Lao PDR Prime Minister's Office, the Vietnamese Government Office and Nghe An province leaders took a souvenir photo. Photo: Thanh Duy |
In particular, last August, Nghe An province successfully organized the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Vietnam - Laos Friendship and Cooperation Treaty with the participation of the Lao Embassy in Vietnam and leaders of 7 provinces with traditional friendship relations. The Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that the activities showed that the close relationship, sharing and cooperation with each other are increasingly affirmed.
In the near future, Nghe An is expected to organize two high-level delegations of provincial leaders to visit and work with several provinces of Laos with traditional friendship and cooperation to further deepen the relationship between the two sides and exchange, discuss and promote cooperation contents.
On behalf of the provincial leaders, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy wished the visit and work of Comrade A-lun-xay Xun-na-lat - Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Minister, Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Lao PDR and the working delegation in Vietnam a success; at the same time, successfully organized the Workshop on exchanging experiences in staff work, synthesizing to serve the Government and the Prime Minister" of the Office of the Lao Prime Minister and the Office of the Government of Vietnam.