The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education has presented certificates of merit to 30 collectives, including the World News Department of the Vietnam News Agency, and 16 individuals for their outstanding performance in the external information service and communications about seas, islands, and land border.
Outstanding collectives and individuals are honoured with certificates of merit by the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education at the conference in Quang Ninh province on December 30 (Photo: VNA)
– The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education has presented certificates of merit to 30 collectives, including the World News Department of the Vietnam News Agency, and 16 individuals for their outstanding performance in the external information service and communications about seas, islands, and land border.
The collectives and individuals were honoured at a national conference held in northern Quang Ninh province on December 30
to review the external information service and communications about seas,
islands, border demarcation, border marker planting, and border management in
2020 and launch tasks for next year.
Highlighting the achievements
in 2020, Vo Van Thuong, Politburo member and Chairman of the Party Central
Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, said the external
information service has reflected Vietnam as a friend, trustworthy partner, and
responsible member of the international community and a safe destination in an
objective, honest, sufficient, timely, and profound manner.
Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education Vo Van Thuong presents the certificate of merit to the World News Department of the Vietnam News Agency (Photo: VNA)
The communications about
seas, islands, and land border have closely followed the reality and been
carried out frequently and continually, helping to improve public awareness,
winning over the international community’s support, and creating favourable
conditions for the protection of Vietnam’s rights and legitimate interests in
the East Sea.
During the Party’s 12th tenure since 2016, he added, the external information service and
communications about seas, islands, and land border have helped promote the
introduction of Vietnam and its culture and people to the world, fight against
wrong and distorted arguments and viewpoints of hostile forces, and safeguard
the country’s land border, as well as sea-related rights and legal and
legitimate interests, thus contributing to national development and defence.
Thuong, who is also Secretary
of the Party Central Committee, noted that there will remain both opportunities
and challenges in the international and regional situation, including the East Sea
issue, which could affect the country’s security and relations among regional
nations in 2021. The 13th National Party Congress and the election
of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People’s Councils at
all levels will also take place next year.
Given this, the forces in
charge of the external information service and communications about seas,
islands, and land border should keep reforming their mindset, improving their
awareness, political mettle, and professional capacity, and diversifying communication
methods.
They also need to boost the
combined coverage of the Party, State and people-to-people diplomacy while
optimising support of nations and friends around the world to continue
promoting Vietnam’s stature in the international arena, the official added./.