The message said that the friendly Lao government and people would achieve fresh and greater success in the struggle to consolidate the people's democratic system and develop the economy of the country to suit its situation under the leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

It expressed the belief that traditional and good relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would steadily grow stronger and wished him good health and success in his work.

On the day, DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong sent a similar message to Thongloun Sisoulith, vice prime minister and foreign minister of Laos.