The proposal was made by Lao Vice President Bounhang Volachith at a reception for the visiting delegation of the Vietnam Ethnic Minority Committee (EMC) led by Deputy Chairman Son Minh Thang in Vientiane on November 8.
Thang briefed Volachith on the result of talks with the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC). He said the two sides reviewed the results of cooperation in recent years, especially since 2007. They compared notes on religious and ethnic minority affairs and other efforts to maintain security, and social order in the two countries, especially in the border areas.
The two sides were pleased at their effective cooperation in preventing drug trafficking across the common border as well as in organising activities to mark the Vietnam-Laos friendship year 2012.
Vice President Volachith expressed his hope that VEMC and LFNC will further strengthen cooperation in all fields
