Da Nang Party Committee Deputy Secretary cum municipal People's Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh visited and congratulated the Lao Consulate General in Da Nang on the occasion of the upcoming Bunpimay Festival 2021, the traditional New Year of Laos.

Da Nang Party Committee Deputy Secretary cum municipal People's Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh (3rd, from left) presenting a gift to the Lao Consulate General in Da Nang on the occasion of Bunpimay Festival 2021

On behalf of the government and people of Da Nang, Chairman Chinh wished the staff of the Lao Consulate General, and Laotian citizens as a whole, good health, happiness, and success in their Bunpimay Festival.

He, in particular, highly lauded the Lao Consulate General in Da Nang for making a significant contribution to promoting the friendship and cooperative ties, over the past time, between the city and Lao localities, and between the two countries at large.

Da Nang, for the time being, is carrying out a number of support activities for the southern Lao provinces, and giving kind assistance to Lao nationals, especially students living in the central Vietnamese city.

The municipal government chief hoped that, in the coming time, once the global COVID-19 is put under control, bilateral cooperation activities, especially people-to-people exchanges between Da Nang and Lao localities will resume, thereby helping tighten the time-honoured friendly relationship between the two countries.

Lao Consul General Viengxay Phommachanh thanked the city leader for his kind concern, and pledged that this Lao diplomatic agency would implement many highly meaningful activities to help lift the relationship between Da Nang and Lao localities to new heights in the time ahead.

Reporting by LAM PHUONG – Translating by A.T