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Submitted by ctv_en_5 on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 14:00
Ensuring the public access to information about foreign affairs is one of the most important tasks set for the second half of this year. The strategy will be carried out by early next year.

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee's steering board for foreign-related information service met in Hanoi on June 18 to set out a programme of tasks that need to be completed during the second half of this year, in the presence of Deputy PM Pham Gia Khiem.

 

An official from the steering board, Nguyen Hong Vinh, presented a report on the effectiveness of disseminating information about foreign affairs during the first half of this year.

 

One of the remarkable results was the successful organisation of the conference that reviewed the last 15 years of implementing the CPV’s Secretariat (7th tenure)’s Directive No 11 on the renewal and foreign-related information service.

 

Over the past 15 years, the public awareness of information about foreign affairs has contributed positively to raising Vietnam’s prestige and position in the international arena and has helped other countries to get a better understanding of its policies, guidelines and laws. It has also helped Vietnam break the blockade and embargo of hostile forces in order to become a reliable destination in terms of tourism investment and business cooperation for foreign investors.

 

However, participants in the meeting pointed out the limitations and weaknesses in foreign-related information dissemination, which, they said, was not timely enough in order to keep pace with the current requirements amid the rapid development of the mass media. In addition, agencies and localities involved in foreign affairs information dissemination have failed to devise a long-term development strategy and also lacked close cooperation.

 

In the first half of this year, a strategy for foreign-related information service until 2020 was devised, with eight projects focusing on increasing the quality of foreign affairs channel VTV4, improving foreign affairs magazines, publishing a number of bilingual publications, restructuring press agencies abroad, enhancing the training of staff involved in the dissemination of foreign-related information and increasing the efficiency of the fight against hostile arguments relating to sensitive issues such as nationality, religion, human rights and democracy.

 

Regarding the way forward and the tasks of foreign-related information service for the second half of this year, the steering board said it is imperative to perfect a strategy for foreign affairs information impartation until 2020. It must also raise the administrations’ awareness of the importance of imparting foreign affairs information in the process of national construction and defense and international integration and make foreign-related information service fit in with the development of IT.

 

At the meeting, the participants also discussed a number of projects in the strategy for foreign-related information service in the new period.

 

In conclusion, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem spoke highly of the results obtained in the first half of this year such as, improving the quality of foreign related information service and boosting close cooperation between the relevant agencies.


Mr Khiem also underlined the need to perfect the strategy for foreign-related information service as soon as possible so that it can be carried out in the first quarter of next year.

 

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