November 20, 2017 | 16:38 (GMT+7)
Kon Tum, Attapeu provinces enhance youth cooperation
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union (LPRYU) Committee of Attapeu province held an exchange on November 20.
At the event in Kon Tum, the two committees
signed a document on a coordination program between 2017 and 2020 so as to
intensify the friendship and solidarity between youths of Kon Tum and Attapeu
in particular, and of Vietnam and Laos in general.
The Youth Union Committees of Kon Tum and Attapeu provinces sign document on a coordination program.
Accordingly, they will further share
experience in youth union works and youth and children’s movements, thus
enhancing unity and mutual understanding.
The provincial committees will continue
directing the youth union committees of Kon Tum’s Ngoc Hoi and Dak Glei
districts and Attapeu’s Phouvong and Sanxay districts to step up exchanges and
communication activities to raise local youngsters’ awareness of keeping and
building a borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development.
The two sides also agreed to organize
voluntary activities, vocational training and training in youth union works in
Attapeu. In particular, they are going to provide free check-ups and medicine
for residents in Attapeu in 2018, along with training in tailoring and youth
union works for young people in the Lao province in 2020.
Vice Secretary of the Attapeu LPRYU
Committee Ongkham Khunsamay highlighted the strong development of the two
provinces’ youth union works, asking both sides to increase mutual visits and
exchanges and further coordinate in educating local young people about the
countries’ traditional friendship and solidarity.
Secretary of the Kon Tum HCYU Committee
Xieng Thanh Phuc said in 2015 and 2016, the two provincial committees organized
exchanges and meetings involving over 100 officials and youth union members.
The Kon Tum side held two informatics
classes for 30 LPRYU members of Attapeu, educated local youths on the shared
borderline and border markers, supported disadvantaged Lao students, and gave
free medical examinations and medicine to over 850 people in Laos, he added.
Source: VNA