On the occasion of Vietnam’s 68th National Day (September 2), Lao
newspapers ran the congratulations of the country’s leaders as well as
articles featuring Vietnam’s multifaceted achievements and the
special relations between the two nations.
The
first pages of such newspapers as Pasason, Pathet Lao, KPL News,
Vientiane Times and Lao Phattahana published the congratulations of
General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President
Chummaly Sayasone, Prime Minister Thoongsinh Thammavong and National
Assembly Chairwoman Pani Dathotu.
They asserted the
firm development of the Vietnam-Laos special relationship for the two
peoples’ interests as well as regional and global peace, development and
cooperation.
Pasason newspaper, the official organ
of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, recounted the historic August
Revolution and printed a photo of President Ho Chi Minh reading the
Declaration of Independence on September 2 to mark the establishment of
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
The newspapers
reiterated that the two countries’ special friendship and solidarity,
which were formed by President Ho Chi Minh and his Lao counterparts
Kayson Phomvihane and Souphanuvong as well as fostered by later leaders
and the two peoples, have become a shared asset of the two nations that
needs to be preserved and promoted in the future.
On
the occasion of the 68th National Day, the Vietnamese Embassy in
Moscow offered incense and flowers at the Ho Chi Minh Monument in the
square of the same name.
Earlier, the embassy also
coordinated with the Association of Vietnamese People in Russia in
holding a sports exchange among Vietnamese here.-VNA