According to VNA, on the morning of February 5, the special plane carrying General Secretary To Lam and the high-level Vietnamese delegation arrived at Wattay International Airport, Vientiane capital, beginning a state visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, at the invitation of the General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Thongloun Sisoulith.
Welcoming General Secretary To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo Member, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and the high-level Vietnamese delegation at Wattay International Airport, Laos side were comrades: Vilay Lakhamphong, Politburo Member, Standing Secretary of the Secretariat;
Phet Phomphiphak, Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the Party Central Committee Office;
Thongsalith Mangnomek, Member of the Politburo, Minister of Education and Sports;
Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Khemmani Pholsena, Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidential Office;
Bounleua Phandanouvong, Member of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Committee for Foreign Affairs;
Bouakhong Nammavong, Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Office;
Adsaphangthong Siphandone, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Vientiane City Party Committee;
Sanya Praseuth, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly;
Khamphao Ernthavanh, Lao Ambassador to Vietnam.
The Vietnamese side included: Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Minh Tam and his wife, along with representatives of agencies, officials, and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos. Representatives of the Vietnamese community living and studying in Laos were also present at the airport to welcome General Secretary To Lam and the high-level Vietnamese delegation.
In a warm atmosphere of friendship, Lao girls and children presented flowers to the General Secretary, representatives of overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese students in Laos, as well as a large number of Lao students and people waving flags of the two countries at the airport and along the way to welcome the General Secretary and the high-level Vietnamese delegation.
The visit is an opportunity for the two Parties and two countries to continue to strongly affirm the tradition of special solidarity, loyalty, and unity between Vietnam and Laos - a close relationship that has been tested, tempered and constantly nurtured through historical periods; at the same time, it shows the highest political determination of the senior leaders of the two Parties and two countries in bringing relations to develop in an increasingly substantive and effective direction.
