VNA, Vietnamese representative agencies abroad to enhance information cooperation

The State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a meeting in Hanoi on July 30 between VNA departments and heads of Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies appointed and nominated this year, aiming to improve the efficiency of cooperation in the external information work in the time ahead.
VNA, Vietnamese representative agencies abroad to enhance information cooperation ảnh 1VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) –
The State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Ministry ofForeign Affairs held a meeting in Hanoi on July 30 between VNA departments andheads of Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies appointed and nominatedthis year, aiming to improve the efficiency of cooperation in the externalinformation work in the time ahead.

Themeeting saw the attendance of VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi and DeputyMinister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung.

Inhis remarks, Loi said the 75-year-old VNAoperates under the consortium model with 16 news units for domestic and foreignservice, and more than 60 information products in the forms of text, photo, TV, radio,infographics and multimedia, using 10 languages of Vietnamese, English, French,Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Lao and Khmer.

TheGovernment has designated the VNA as the key national external informationagency, and its three products, the electronic newspaper Vietnam Plus, theEnglish-language daily Viet Nam News and the multi-language photo magazine VietnamPictorial as national press products for foreign service.

Theagency publishes about 1,500 articles weekly in English, Chinese, French,Spanish and Russian on its portal vnanet.vn and e-newspaper vietnamplus.vn, alongwith daily English and Chinese news programmes, and weekly French and Spanishnews programmes via its TV channel.

ThePress Photography Department publishes photos with captions in English,featuring political and social events daily on the www.vnanet.vn portal.

Oneof the agency’s advantages is a network of 90 domestic and foreign bureaus, Loisaid, adding that 30 bureaus are based in 28 countries, with about 80journalists.

TheVNA aims to become a multimedia news agency to serve as a reliable source ofinformation for press agencies at home and abroad, and the public as well, headded.

Loilauded the whole-hearted and effective support of Vietnamese representative agenciesabroad for the VNA’s overseas bureaus, and expressed his hope that leaders ofthe Foreign Ministry and head of the Vietnamese representative agencies abroadwill continue with their close coordination and assistance to VNAcorrespondents, especially at major events.

Speakingat the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Dung underlined the close relationsbetween the ministry and the VNA, as well as the VNA’s overseas bureaus andVietnamese representative agencies abroad.

Heurged the sides to continue with information exchange in order to betterperform their assigned political tasks, and help international friendsunderstand more about guidelines and polices of the Party and the State.

Headof the Vietnamese representative agencies abroad pledged to further coordinatewith the VNA and facilitate the operation of its correspondents./.




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