PM Pham Minh Chinh presents the special prize to leaders of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Vietnam News Agency. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) won a total of 20 prizes, including one special prize shared with two other agencies, four first,one second, seven third and seven consolation prizes, at the 7th NationalExternal Information Service Awards presentation ceremony in Hanoi on November28 night.
With these prizes, VNA became one of the units that have secured the largest number of prizes in the National External Information Service Awards for consecutive years.
Co-organised by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Informationand Education and the Central SteeringCommittee for ExternalInformation Service, the event honoured 102 best entries,including one special, 10 first, 19 second, 29 third and 43 consolation prizes.
A representative of the group of authors from VNA's Department of Domestic News receives a first prize. (Photo: VNA) It also marked the 10th year ofimplementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No.16-KL/TW on the externalinformation development strategy for the 2011-2020 period. Over the pastdecade, external information has made positive contributions to the country’sinformation and education work as well as the Party and State’s achievements inexternal affairs.
This year, the organising boardreceived over 1,000 entries in 14 languages which were published as articles in print and online newspapers, websiteslicensed by competent agencies, radio and TV broadcast, press and landscapephotos, and books.
Notably,foreign authors and press agencies, overseas Vietnamese and Vietnameseembassies abroad also sent works to the arwards.
Speaking atthe event, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh described external informationas an important part of the Party’s external affairs, State andpeople-to-people diplomacy, and ideological affairs. Its core role is to bringVietnam to the world and the world closer to Vietnam, he said.
The PM requested renewing the externalinformation work by adopting advanced technologies to improve quality, thusensuring correctness, timeliness, attractiveness, relevance and efficiency in multiple languages.
He presented certificates to a group of authorswinning the special prize, including the Party Central Committee’s Commission forExternal Relations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the VNA and those participating in theexternal information work, for their work on introducing and popularising Party General SecretaryNguyen Phu Trong article entitled “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialismand the path towards socialism in Vietnam” to political parties andinternational friends./.
