General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong pays official friendly visit to Laos

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and a high-level Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi on the morning of November 24 for an official friendly visit to Laos at the invitation of Lao Party General Secretary and President Bounnhang Vorachith.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

The Party chief is being accompanied by Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC’s Organisation Commission; Vuong Dinh Hue, Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister; Nguyen Van Nen, Secretary of the PCC and Chief of the PCC’s Office; and Hoang Binh Quan, member of the PCC and Head of the PCC’s Commission for External Relations.

The entourage also includes Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Planning and Investment; Tran Tuan Anh, Minister of Industry and Trade; Truong Quang Nghia, Minister of Transport; Phung Xuan Nha, Minister of Education and Training; the secretaries of the provincial Party Committees; deputy ministers; and Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Manh Hung.