(VOVworld) – President Tran Dai Quang received Lao’s Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith in Hanoi on Thursday. He said the successful visits to Vietnam by the Lao General Secretary and President Bunnhang Volachith and Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith elevated relations between the two Parties, States, and Governments to a new level.

President Tran Dai Quang (R) received Lao's Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith in Hanoi on June 9, 2016 (photo:VOV)

He hailed the outcome of the meeting between the Vietnamese, Laotian foreign ministers, saying that cooperative orientations will improve the two ministries’ relations, particularly during Lao’s ASEAN Chairmanship.

President Tran Dai Quang said he will visit Laos in June.

In a meeting with Lao’s Ambassador Thongsavanh Phimvihane, President Quang wished the Ambassador a successful term, contributing to Vietnamese-Laotian relations.