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President Xi Jinping meets with visiting Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Jan 6, 2020. - Xinhua
BEIJING (Xinhua): China will continue to extend support to Laos in its fight against Covid-19 and is actively considering aiding the nation with vaccines, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday (Jan 21).
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark in a phone conversation with Thongloun Sisoulith, the new general secretary of the Lao People s Revolutionary Party Central Committee.
The phone call came on the heels of a congratulatory message sent by Xi to Thongloun, the Lao prime minister, who was elected general secretary of the LPRP Central Committee at the 11th National Congress of the LPRP last week.
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