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Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (L) shakes hands with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) during the opening of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Nusa Dua on NOvember 15, 2011.

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Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith addresses the 66th UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 26, 2011.

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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) prior to their talks at Kan's office in Tokyo on August 3, 2011. Thongloun is on a four-day visit to Japan which included a visit to the tsunami disaster...

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Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R) shakes hands with visiting Laos Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (L) prior to their talks following a signing ceremony on grant aids at the foreign minister's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on August 2, 2011.

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers, Myanmar's Wunna Maung Lwin (R), Cambodia's Hor Namhong (2nd-R), Indonesia's Marty Natalegawa (3rd-R) and his wife (C), Laos' Thongloun Sisoulith (3rd-L), ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan (L) and his wife (2nd-L), pose...

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers (from Left to Right) Philippines' Albert del Rosario, Singapore's K. Shanmugam, Thailand's Surapong Tovichakchaikul, Vietnam's Pham Binh Minh, Indonesia's Marty Natalegawa, Cambodia's Hor Namhong, Brunei's Mohamed Bolkiah,...

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Front L-R: Foreign ministers Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos, Kohilan Pillay of Malaysia, Marty Natalegawa of Indonesia, Kao Kim Hourn of Cambodia, and Kevin Rudd of Australia stand with (rear L-R) Albert Del Rosario of the Philippines, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Borodavkin of Russia,...

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Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (L) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (R) on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting (FMM) in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on July 21, 2011. Officials...

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Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) chats with Lao's Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (L) after the 44rd Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on July 19, 2011. ASEAN must maximise the use of Twitter, Facebook and other social...

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Laotian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (L) and Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi hold a news conference after the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Godollo June 7, 2011.

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Lao's Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, left, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, address the media at the end of the 10th Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting (ASEM) in the town of Godollo, east of Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, June 7, 2011.

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High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU) Catherine Ashton (L) and Laos' Deputy Prime Minister and FM Thongloun Sisoulith (C) pose with Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Foreign Ministers for a family picture on June 6, 2011 after the 10th meeting...

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China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) laughs with Laos' Deputy Prime Minister and FM Thongloun Sisoulith (R) during a family picture on June 6, 2011 after the 10th meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), held at the Art Palace of Godollo. The overarching title...

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) shakes hands with Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith prior to the US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on November 18, 2011. Obama earlier said he will send Hillary...

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks with Laos' Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith at the U.S.-ASEAN meeting in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.

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Foreign ministers and their representatives, from left to right, Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, Philippines undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Erlinda Basilio, Singapore's K. Shanmugam, Thailand's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Jullapong Nonsrichai, Vietnam's Pham Binh Minh,...

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Foreign ministers Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from right, Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos, Lim Jock Seng of Brunei and Hor Namhong of Cambodia attend the ASEAN Political Security Community Council meeting in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on November 16, 2011...

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(L-R) Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, Philippine's Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Erlinda Basilio, Singapore's Second Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bilahari Kausikan, Thailand's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Jullapong Nonsrichai, Vietnam's Foreign...

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Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (2nd L) chats with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (R) listened by ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan (L), Lao's Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Myanmar Foreign Affair U Wunna Maung Lwin during The ASEAN Foreign Ministerial...

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(L-R) Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, Philippines' Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Erlinda Basilio, Singapore's Foreign Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, Thailand's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Jullapong Nonsrichai, Vietnam's Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Indonesia's...

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Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (front C), Singapore's Foreign Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam (front L), Malaysia's Foreign Minister Anifah Aman (front R), Cambodia's Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (back L) Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin (back 2nd R) and Laos'...

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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith, addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011.

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Cambodia Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (L), Indonesia Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (C) and Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith (R) walk into a meeting room for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) informal meeting in Jakarta on February 22, 2011. ASEAN ministers...

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Vietnam's President Truong Tan Sang (C) shakes hands with Laos Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith as Laos President Choummaly Sayasone (L) looks on in front of a statue of late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi...

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ASEAN Regional Forum ministers, front row from left, North Korea's Pak Ui Chun, European Union's representative Elzbieta Bienkowska, Japan's Takeaki Matsumoto, Laos' Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia's Kohilan Pillay, Indonesia's Marty Natalegawa, Cambodia's State Secretary Kao Kim Hourn, Australia's...