The awarding is in recognition of their significant contributions to strengthening the great friendship, special solidarity, comprehensive cooperation, and strategic ties between Vietnam and Laos.

It also contributes to further deepening the close ties between the Parties, States, peoples, and armed forces of the two countries.

Speaking at the ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Saichay Kommasith underscored that in recent years the Party, State, armed forces, and people of Vietnam have provided all-around support and assistance to the Party, State, armed forces, and people of Laos.

He affirmed that the Lao military and people are fully and deeply aware that the successes achieved in Laos’s past struggle for national liberation, as well as in its current cause of national construction and development, are closely linked to the great solidarity and the invaluable, wholehearted support of the Vietnamese military and people.