Laos-Vietnam Youth Meeting 2008 begins in HCMC

Laos-Vietnam Youth Meeting 2008 begins in HCMC

(KPL) – 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.
According to VNA, the Vietnam-Laos Youth Friendship Meeting 2008 will run until September 8 as part of a comprehensive cooperation programme between the Vietnam’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 Vietnam-Laos relationship.- Huaphanh to compete in eight sports at