VNA leader elected head of Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association

Nguyen Duc Loi, member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), was elected President of the Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association (VSFA) for the 2018-2023 term, at its third national congress in Hanoi on March 27.
VNA leader elected head of Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association ảnh 1Member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and General Director of the Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi speaks at the third national congress of the Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Nguyen Duc Loi, memberof the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and General Director of theVietnam News Agency (VNA), was elected President of the Vietnam-SpainFriendship Association (VSFA) for the 2018-2023 term, at its third nationalcongress in Hanoi on March 27.

The event saw the presence of Vice President andSecretary General of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Don TuanPhong, Spanish Ambassador to Vietnam Maria Jesus Figa Lopez-Palop, andrepresentatives from the Party Central Committee’s Commission for ExternalRelations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Home Affairs, theVNA and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.

Speaking at the congress, VSFA President NguyenDuc Loi said the new executive board will exert efforts to develop theassociation’s activities in a more diverse and effective manner, therebyhelping to foster the traditional friendship between the Vietnamese and Spanishpeople.

At the congress, participants agreed that in thetime ahead, the association will increase the exchange of delegations,organising more friendship activities, and developing the association with afocus on the two countries’ priority fields, particularly attracting youngpeople from Spanish training establishments and businesses that havecooperative ties with Spain.

They will also continue popularising informationabout the association’s activities and Vietnam-Spain cooperation, expandingties with Spanish friends and partners to promote the relations between thepeople of the two nations, and calling on the Spanish people to supportVietnam’s economic, social and cultural development.

Founded in 2004, the VSFA is one of 64 memberorganisations of the VUFO. Its activities have helped strengthen thefriendship, cooperation and mutual understanding between the Vietnamese andSpanish people.

The association has maintained meetings andfriendship exchanges marking Vietnam-Spain diplomatic ties and called forsocial participation in people-to-people diplomatic activities. It has alsosuccessfully served as a bridge liking Vietnamese and Spanish businesses whilekeeping close contact with the two countries’ embassies as well as Spanishfriends and partners.-VNA
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