Leaders of the Party Central Committee, National Assembly, State and Government of Vietnam have sent sincere condolences to their Lao counterparts over a military plane crash on May 17 that killed a number of Lao senior party and government officials.
The message wrote that “We greatly mourn over the sudden decease while on assignment of Politburo member, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Douangchay Phichit; Party Central Committee’s Secretary and Minister of Public Security Thoongbane Sengaphone; Party Central Committee’s Secretary and head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Training Cheuang Sombounkhanh; Party Central Committee’s Secretary and Secretary of the Party Committee and Governor of Vientiane Sukhan Mahalad; and other senior officials”.
This is a huge loss to the Party, State, National Assembly and Government of Laos as well as to their families, the message said, adding the Vietnamese leaders and people also suffer from the loss of their close comrades and friends who made active contributions to consolidating and developing the traditional friendship and special solidarity between the two nations.
Vietnam believes that the Party, State and people of Laos will quickly overcome this tragic loss to go ahead with their national construction, protection and development, said the message.
*** On May 18, Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Manh Hung and other Vietnamese officials laid floral tributes to commemorate the Lao officials who were killed in the fatal accident.
Source: VOV