Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) yesterday calls on President Thongloun Sisoulith, who is also Party Secretary General of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee, in Vientiane. The Chinese foreign minister is on an official visit to Laos to attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ meetings with dialogue partners.

At the Vietnamese Embassy in Vientiane yesterday, Politburo member and Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone signs a book of condolence in an act of mourning following the passing of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, on July 19.