Vietnam, Laos issue joint communique on President Triet's visit.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report in English by Vietnamese news agency VNA website

["Vietnam, Laos Issue Joint Communique"]

Hanoi (VNA) -State President Nguyen Minh Triet and a Vietnamese delegation paid an official visit to Laos on Feb. 5-7.

The two sides issued a joint communique at the conclusion of the visit, in which State President Nguyen Minh Triet and Lao State President Choummaly Sayasone noted with pleasure that the tradition friendship, the special solidarity and the comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos were unceasingly consolidated and developed in both scale and depth in the fields of …