Vietnamese NA pledges to share working experience with Laos
The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) stands ready to share its experience in dealing with specific topics regarding question and answer and inspection work with its Lao counterpart, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has said.
NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (right) and her Lao counterpart Pany Yathotou (Photo: VNA)
Siem Reap (VNA) – The VietnameseNational Assembly (NA) stands ready to share its experience in dealing with specifictopics regarding question and answer and inspection work with its Laocounterpart, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has said.
The top legislator made the commitments at a meeting with her Lao counterpartPany Yathotou on the sidelines of the 27th Annual Meeting of theAsia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-27) in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on January15.
The Vietnamese legislature is also willing to share operational experience ofpeople’s councils in localities with the Lao side, Ngan added.
She highlighted the bilateral comprehensive, intensive and result-orientedlegislative ties, including the sharing of experience in law-building under acooperation agreement reached in 2017.
For her part, Pany Yathotou spoke highly of the Vietnamese NA leader’s speechat the opening ceremony of the APPF-27 which emphasises that successful parliamentarypartnerships would contribute to addressing regional concerns and issues.
She called on Vietnamese and Lao NAs to continue exchanging delegations,organising workshops and thematic conferences and joining hands in inspectingthe implementation of signed agreements.
The Lao chief legislator thanked the Vietnamese NA for its support andinformation and experience exchange in improving the quality of meetings of thelegislature and people’s councils.
She noted her wish that committees of the two legislatures will partner insupervising the realisation of agreements reached by high-ranking leaders ofthe two countries in order to promptly deal with bottlenecks and create morefavourable conditions for movements through border gates, helping raise thebilateral trade, and promote economic and trade ties.
The two sides shared the views that the two legislatures should exert greaterefforts to strengthen their ties in 2019.
The leaders also talked about coordination to speed up the construction of theLao NA House – a gift from the Vietnamese Party, State and people to Laos.
Pany Yathotou said she will soon pay a visit to Vietnam to seek concretemeasures to enhance the traditional friendship, special solidarity andcomprehensive cooperation between the two countries.-VNA
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NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (right) and her Lao counterpart Pany Yathotou (Photo: VNA) 
