(HBO) – A delegation of the Hoa Binh provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has paid a working visit to the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Laos to bolster cooperation in professional activities.


 

The visit aimed to share experience in document and artifact collection, restoration, along with preservation and promotion of values of Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites in Hoa Binh province.

Singthong Singhapanya, a leader of the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum, welcomed the delegation’s working visit to Laos. He affirmed that the Party and State of Laos are interested in the collection of documents and the restoration and preservation of Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites, including those in Hoa Binh province.

He highlighted the importance of the Vietnam-Laos relic sites in Hoa Binh to Laos’s revolution as well as the managing board of the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum, noting that these relic sites provide more evidence of the special friendship between the two nations.

The two sides agreed to cooperate in collecting relevant documents and restoring and preserving these relic sites.


 

The delegation of the Hoa Binh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism visits the house of late President Kaysone Phomvihane in the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Laos.

After discussing, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding. Accordingly, they agreed to continue cooperating in professional activities, including studying and collecting artifacts. They will also keep working together to preserve and bring into play values of the two Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites in Hoa Binh. Communications activities will also be increased to raise people’s awareness of the special bilateral friendship as well as the significance of the two relic sites in the province.

In 2019, the Vietnamese side will invite a delegation of Laos to visit Hoa Binh to discuss the cooperation.

During their stay in Laos, the Hoa Binh delegation visited to collect information at some other museums and historical and cultural relic sites of Laos. They also interviewed two persons who directly prepared for and attended the preparatory congress for the second Congress of the Lao People’s Party (now the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party) in Hoa Binh in 1971.

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