Monday, 14/12/2020 17:17 (GMT+7)
The great President Ho Chi Minh and the beloved Lao President Kaysone Phomvihane were the people who laid the foundations for the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos that has been fostered and developed by the next generations.
President Ho Chi Minh received President Kaysone Phomvihane during his visit to Vietnam in 1966. (Documentary photo)
That is the exemplary, rare, faithful, and pure international relationship, the existence and development of which is one of the factors that ensures the success of the revolutionary cause of each country, and an invaluable common property of the two Parties and two peoples. So confirmed Ms. Sounthone Xaynhachak, Head of the Lao Party Central Committee Commission of External Affairs, in her articles marking the 45th anniversary of the Lao National Day (December 2) and 100th birthday of President Kaysone Phomvihane (December 13).
During his leadership of the Lao revolution, President Kaysone Phomvihane always highly appreciated the role and position of Vietnam in the Lao revolutionary cause.
Mr. Somsavat Lengsavath, former Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of President Kaysone for 27 years, said that during his life, President Kaysone often told the reason why Laos must have a great relationship with Vietnam, because both countries share the same fate of being invaded by the French colonialists. Laos and Vietnam discussed cooperation to struggle against the common enemy for national independence and freedom.
In his books and speeches, Chairman Kaysone Phomvihane always affirmed Laos’ consistent policy towards Vietnam. During a conference in 1965, President Kaysone Phomvihane affirmed that looking back on the past 20 years of history, regardless of circumstances, Laos and Vietnam were always living and dying together and doing revolution together. “The victory of the Vietnamese revolution is our common victory,” he said. “We live together despite happiness or sorrow, making the relationship a special one.”
After the two countries were completely liberated in 1975, the relationship entered a new stage. In his speech to celebrate the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (December 1976), President Kaysone affirmed that in the history of the world revolution, there were many shining examples of proletarian international sentiment, but there had never existed a long and comprehensive special solidarity relationship such as the Laos-Vietnam relationship. “We will do our best to nurture the relationship,” he added./.
Compiled by BTA