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.
The youth union committee of Kon Tum and Attapeu provinces sign document on a coordination programme for 2017-2020 on November 20 (Photo: VNA)
Kon Tum (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh Communist YouthUnion (HCYU) Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and the LaoPeople’s Revolutionary Youth Union (LPRYU) Committee of Attapeu province heldan exchange on November 20.
At the event in Kon Tum, the two committeessigned a document on a coordination programme between 2017 and 2020 so as tointensify the friendship and solidarity between youths of Kon Tum and Attapeuin particular, and of Vietnam and Laos in general.
Accordingly, they will further share experiencein youth union works and youth and children’s movements, thus enhancing unityand mutual understanding.
The provincial committees will continue directingthe youth union committees of Kon Tum’s Ngoc Hoi and Dak Glei districts andAttapeu’s Phouvong and Sanxay districts to step up exchanges and communicationactivities to raise local youngsters’ awareness of keeping and building aborderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and development.
The two sides also agreed to organise voluntaryactivities, vocational training and training in youth union works in Attapeu.In particular, they are going to provide free check-ups and medicine forresidents in Attapeu in 2018, along with training in tailoring and youth unionworks for young people in the Lao province in 2020.
Vice Secretary of the Attapeu LPRYU CommitteeOngkham Khunsamay highlighted the strong development of the two provinces’youth union works, asking both sides to increase mutual visits and exchangesand further coordinate in educating local young people about the countries’traditional friendship and solidarity.
Secretary of the Kon Tum HCYU Committee XiengThanh Phuc said in 2015 and 2016, the two provincial committees organisedexchanges and meetings involving over 100 officials and youth union members.
The Kon Tum side held two informatics classesfor 30 LPRYU members of Attapeu, educated local youths on the shared borderlineand border markers, supported disadvantaged Lao students, and gave free medicalexaminations and medicine to over 850 people in Laos, he added.-VNA
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The youth union committee of Kon Tum and Attapeu provinces sign document on a coordination programme for 2017-2020 on November 20 (Photo: VNA) 
