Hanoi, Dec. 4 -- The 48th meeting of the Vietnam - Laos Inter-Governmental Committee, co-chaired by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone, has marked an important milestone in deepening the two countries' special relationship and elevating it to a new strategic level. In an interview granted to the media following PM Chinh's working visit to Laos on December 2-3, Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung said the meeting took place alongside a series of major events attended by the PM, including the high-level meeting between the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, and the ceremony marking the 50th National Day of Laos and the 105th birth anniversary of late President Ka...