Vietnam will share experience and provide training to assist Laos in establishing a United Nations peacekeeping force, according to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

General Cuong was speaking during talks in Hanoi on March 5 with Lieutenant General Saichay Kommasith, Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Lao People’s Army.

Gen. Cuong emphasized that in recent years, defence cooperation in general, and cooperation between the General Staffs of the two countries in particular, has been effective and becomes one of the key pillars in the relationship between Vietnam and Laos.

The two sides have closely coordinated to make recommendations on strategic military and defence issues to their respective Party and State leaders. Cooperation between military branches has been implemented effectively, and the border military units and border guard forces of both countries have worked well together to ensure security, order, and social safety in the border region.

Lieu. Gen. Kommasith for his part underscored the importance of the meeting between the Chiefs of the General Staff of the two countries’ armies. He affirmed that the Vietnam-Laos defence cooperation has become increasingly substantive and deep over time.

Kommasith agreed that in the near future, the two sides would continue to promote cooperation based on the signed documents, to further strengthen the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries and their armed forces, and to ensure that the Vietnam-Laos relationship remains ever green and everlasting.

During the talks, the two sides also exchanged views on regional and global issues of mutual concern and the situation of their respective armed forces.

In the future, they vowed to effectively implement cooperation agreements in line with the common perceptions of the senior leaders of both countries, especially the Vietnam-Laos high-level agreement in 2024, and the February 2025 meeting between the leaders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as the signed documents between the two countries’ Ministries of National Defence.

They agreed to enhance the sharing of strategic issues through high-level meetings and the Defence Policy Dialogue mechanism. They also agreed to further strengthen cooperation, especially in human resource training, logistics, information technology, and the defence industry, while providing continued mutual support at multilateral forums.