On 17 November 2021, Mrs. Chulamanee Chartsuwan, Deputy Permanent Secretary , Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand  attended the 13th High-Level Round Table Meeting, on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, via video conference. The Meeting was co-chaired  by the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Lao PDR and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The meeting was  attended by Ministers of relevant Ministries, Governors, Diplomats both in Vientiane capital and abroad, representatives of International Organizations and Civil Society.

Mrs. Chulamanee hilghted the successful outcomes of the 22nd Joint Commission of Bilateral Cooperation between Thailand and Lao PDR and reaffirmed the commitments to deepening cooperation for resilient and sustainable recovery and stronger people-to-people partnerships through Three-Year Development Cooperation Programme between Thailand  and  Lao PDR. As a long-standing and reliable development partner of Lao PDR, she reiterated that Thailand  is committed  to assist Lao PDR in  LDC graduation in order to support its development goals in both the human resources and the institutional capacity development under the 9th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP). She also expressed  Thailand's   readiness to continue close cooperation with Lao PDR during its ACMECS Chairmanship in 2022.