A performance at the opening ceremony of the Lao Culture Week In Vietnam on July 18 (Photo: VNA)

The event, held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, is part of activities marking the 60th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties (September 5, 1962) and 45 years since the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation (July 18, 1977).

Lao Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Suansavanh Viyaketh addresses the ceremony in Hanoi on July 18. (Photo: VNA)

In her opening remarks, Lao Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Suansavanh Viyaketh said for more than half a century, under the leadership of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, the Communist Party of Vietnam and Presidents Ho Chi Minh, Kaysone Phomvihane and Souphanouvong, the two countries have assisted each other in surmounting countless difficulties and hardships to successfully fight for national independence, freedom and liberation.
Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung highlighted the two countries’ great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation.

The Lao Culture Week in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Culture Week in Laos, along with a series of major activities marking the diplomatic relations in 2022, are critical to helping strengthen the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation.