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Vietnamese, Cuban news agencies seek stronger partnership

General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi and President of the Prensa Latina (PL) news agency of Cuba Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta held talks in Hanoi on September 10 to review outcomes of the bilateral cooperation and discuss measures to strengthen their partnership in the future.
Vietnamese, Cuban news agencies seek stronger partnership ảnh 1General Director of the Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi (R) welcomes President of the Prensa Latina news agency of Cuba Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta in Hanoi on September 10 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – General Director of the VietnamNews Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi and President of the Prensa Latina (PL) newsagency of Cuba Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta held talks in Hanoi on September 10to review outcomes of the bilateral cooperation and discuss measures tostrengthen their partnership in the future.

The PL leaderextended greetings to the VNA on its 74th founding anniversary andthanked the Vietnamese news agency for its effective support over the years.

Without thesupport and assistance from the VNA, it would be hard for the PL to accomplishall tasks assigned in the context that Cuba is facing tightening economicembargoes, he stated.

Realising thesigned bilateral agreement, the two sides have provided each other with news,pictures and TV news in English, French and Spanish, while sending experts towork in each other’s office. The VNA-run Vietnam Pictorial has been printed andpublished in Cuba and the Latin American region.

Lauding theexchange of news in Spanish between the two sides, the VNA leader affirmed thatPL news is an important source for the VNA, especially in updating readers withinformation of Latin America and Venezuela.

PL experts haveworked effectively in the VNA in producing Spanish news and helping train youngeditors as well as printing and publishing the Vietnam Pictorial in Spanish forthe Latin America region, he noted.

PL reporters haveactively covered news of Vietnam, while sending entries to the National Awardson News on External Affairs. A work on Vietnamese children by Mariela VenezuelaPerez during her working in Vietnam won second prize of the award in 2018,while another by a reporter teams led by Alberto Salazar Gutierrez also wonconsolation prize, Loi highlighted.

He said that theVNA always gives best support to PL reporters and experts in Vietnam.

For his part, LuisEnrique Gonzalez Acosta said that the PL is willing to support the VNA bysending its experts to work in the VNA. After returning to their homeland, thePL experts said that they learnt a lot from the time in Vietnam.

During the talks,the two sides agreed on a number of measures to strengthen their cooperationefficiency, including the increase of the publishing of the Spanish edition ofthe Vietnam Pictorial in the Latin America. This is also one of the majorcontents of a project to develop national press for foreign service of the VNA,which has been approved by the Prime Minister of Vietnam.

The two sidesconcurred to increase news of activities held in each country on the occasionof the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam-Cuba diplomatic relations,highlighting the traditional friendship and solidarity between the two Parties,States and nations as well as prospects for bilateral partnership.

They alsodiscussed the organization of photo exhibitions on socio-economic situation, the image ofthe land and people of each country on this special occasion.

Leaders of the two news agencies also sought measures to enhance theirprofessional cooperation in the future, thus promoting the growth and prestigeof each agency in the region and the world.-VNA
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