Vietnam-Laos Youth Meeting 2008 begins in HCM City

HCM City (VNA) - Sixty young delegates from Laos arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on September 1 to attend the Vietnam-Laos Youth Friendship Meeting 2008, which began the same day.

The Vietnam-Laos Youth Friendship Meeting 2008 will run until September 8 as
part of a comprehensive cooperation programme between the Viet Nam 's Ho
Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Lao People's Revolutionary Youth
Union.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the meeting, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh
Communist Youth Union Central Committee Phan Van Mai affirmed that the two
countries' youths have jointly gained achievements in their cooperation
programmes in personnel training, information and culture exchange,
voluntary activities, business development, press and publishing.

Khamphan Shitthidamopha, First Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary
Youth Union, and of the Lao delegation expressed his belief that this year's
programme would help boost the Vietnam-Laos comprehensive cooperation and
help young generations of the two countries understand more about the
history and tradition of the Vietnam-Laos special friendship.

While in HCM City , the Lao young people will inquire into the city's
political, economic and cultural life, meet with municipal leaders and
students of the HCM City National Administration Institute.

The delegation of the Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union will visit
central Quang Tri province, Ho Chi Minh City , southern Binh Duong and Ba
Ria-Vung Tau provinces.

The two countries' youth delegates will exchange experiences in
developing youth organisations, the cooperation between the two countries'
youth unions and boosting the Viet Nam-Laos relationship