Vietnam News Agency, Russian Embassy foster collaboration in communications

VNA Director General Vu Viet Trang (R) receives Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Bezdetko Gennady Stepanovich (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Cooperation between the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Russian News Agency TASS has made important contributions to consolidating and developing the good relations between Russia and Vietnam, Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Bezdetko Gennady Stepanovich has affirmed.

He made the remarks at a meeting with VNA Director General Vu Viet Trang at the VNA headquarters in Hanoi on December 28.

Trang briefed the ambassador on the agency’s operations and its news for foreign service in Russian language which she said has helped nurture the Vietnam-Russia traditional relationship, and helped the two peoples, especially young generations, understand more about each other’s country.

VNA Director General Vu Viet Trang receives Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Bezdetko Gennady Stepanovich (Photo: VNA)

Regarding the time-honoured ties between VNA and TASS, she informed the diplomat of the success of a photo exhibition featuring two decades of Russia-Vietnam strategic partnership through photos taken by TASS and VNA reporters.

The fourth exhibition jointly held by the two news agencies has contributed to the success of the official visit to Russia by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc early in December.

Ambassador G. Bezdetko stressed that one of the important tasks of the two news agencies - TASS and VNA - at present is to provide readers with accurate and objective information about the pandemic situation as well as about the two countries' joint efforts in controlling and repelling the epidemic.

He expressed his willingness to coordinate with VNA in information dissemination, thus helping boost the two countries’ all-round strategic partnership./.

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