Vietnam - Laos: Promoting cooperation in technologies and innovation
Deploying ministerial-level cooperation agreements signed in 2023 between Vietnam and Laos in the fields of science, technology and innovation, receiving the invitation of Lao Minister of Technology and Communications Boviengkham Vongdara, in two days May 28 and 29, 2024, Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat led a delegation to visit and work in Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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Minister Huynh Thanh Dat and Minister Boviengkham Vongdara exchanged minutes of the first meeting of the Vietnam - Laos Technology and Innovation Cooperation Committee.
In the afternoon of May 28, 2024, in the capital Vientiane, Minister of Science and Technology of Vietnam Huynh Thanh Dat together with Minister of Technology and Communications of Laos Boviengkham Vongdara co-chaired the first meeting of the Technology and innovation cooperation between Vietnam and Laos.
At the Meeting, the two Ministers exchanged updated information on the socio-economic development, science, technologies and innovation of each country, emphasizing the important role of progress of technology and innovation in the sustainable development and prosperity of the country's economy.
The two sides agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in technology and innovation, diversifying forms of cooperation to contribute to implementing solutions and tasks set out in each country's sustainable development strategy that meet the requirements of the new international context, in accordance with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and current world development trends.