Choummaly Sayasone, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic
Republic, met with General Li Jinai, member of the Central Military Commission
and director of the General Political Department of the PLA, who was on an
official friendly visit to Laos, and his party on November 26 in Vientiane.
Choummaly said that the good-neighborly friendship and friendly cooperation
between the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the Communist Party of China
and between the Laos and China have been developing in an all-round and
deep-going way. The Lao side will unswervingly support China's cause of building
socialism with Chinese characteristics and continue to support China's
reunification efforts. Choummaly also asked Li Jinai to convey his cordial
greetings and best wishes to Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Li Jinai first conveyed President Hu Jintao's cordial greetings and best
regards to President Choummaly. Li Jinai then said that under the painstaking
cultivation and promotion by several generations of leaders of the two parties
and the two countries, the traditional friendship between China and the Laos has
stood the test of the vicissitudes in international affairs and the relations
between the two parties and the two countries have been constantly consolidated
and developed. The Chinese side is willing to work together with the Lao side to
continue to develop the traditional friendship and all-round cooperative ties
with the Lao side in line with the consensus reached by the leaders of the two
parties and the two countries.
Li Jinai and his party also met with Lieutenant General Douangchay Phichit,
Lao deputy prime minister and defense minister, and held talks with Brigadier
General Sengnouane Sayalat, director of the General Political Department of the
Lao People's Army, during which the two sides spoke highly of the friendly
cooperative ties between the two countries and the two militaries and indicated
that the two sides would make common efforts and adopt active measures to boost
the pragmatic cooperation between the two militaries to a new and higher level.
Li Jinai and his party arrived in Vientiane on November 25 to pay an
official friendly visit to Laos at the invitation of Sengnouane Sayalat.
(Nov 27, PLA Daily)
