The 12th security co-operation conference between Vietnam and Laos was held in Vientiane on March 3, under the co-chair of Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen. Luong Tam Quang and his Laotian counterpart Sen. Lieut. Gen. Kongthong Phongvichith.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and Chairman of the ruling United Russia Party, has affirmed his council’s readiness to support and ramp up co-operation between the two countries across multiple fields.
As a founding member of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), the nation has played an active and proactive part of the ASEM process and put forth an array of measures and initiatives aimed at ramping up co-operation within the ASEM across all spheres.