Awarding the Friendship Medal to many Lao leaders

The awarding of Medals is a form of gratitude to individuals and groups who have done a good job of repaying gratitude.

On the afternoon of June 17, in Vientiane (Laos), the Special Working Committee of the Government of Vietnam (BCTDDBCP) led by Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense, authorized by the President and the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam, awarded the Friendship Order, Medal, and Certificate of Merit of the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam to collectives and individuals who are senior leaders and ministries of Laos who have made outstanding achievements in the process of coordinating with the BCTDDBCP of Vietnam to search, collect, collect and repatriate the remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died during the war in Laos.

Senior Lao leaders receive Vietnam's Friendship Medal.

Attending the ceremony, on the Lao side were Senior Lieutenant General Duangchay Phichith, Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense; leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central Propaganda and Training Commission, the Lao Ministry of Security, and leaders of Lao organizations and localities; and representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos.

The organizing committee of the ceremony highly appreciated and recognized the contributions of the units and individuals who received the noble awards presented by the Party and State of Vietnam. At the same time, it emphasized that Vietnam and Laos are two nations with a long-standing close relationship, sharing the same enemy in the struggle for national liberation.

During peacetime, with the work of gratitude, over the past 20 years, the Lao Government's Special Working Group has wholeheartedly helped the Vietnamese Government's Special Working Group and delegations and teams to collect, search, exhume and repatriate more than 16,400 martyrs' remains for burial in Vietnam's martyr cemeteries.

The awarding of the Government's Medals and Certificates of Merit from the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense to 473 groups and 892 individuals of Laos is a show of gratitude to the Lao Party, State, army and people for their good work in repaying the heroic martyrs.

Receiving the Friendship Medal this time were Senior Lieutenant General Duangchay Phichith; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda and Training Commission Cheang Sombounkhane; Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sounthon Sayachak and the Lao Ministries of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Labor, Social Affairs and Welfare./.

According to (vov.vn) - LT