Agencies, localities urged to increase quality, efficiency of external information service
The Steering Committee for External Information Service on October 11 organised a national conference on studying and implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 57-KL/TW dated June 15, 2023, on continuing to improve the quality and efficiency of external information service in the new situation.
The Steering Committee for External Information Service on October 11 organises a national conference on studying and implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 57-KL/TW dated June 15, 2023, on continuing to improve the quality and efficiency of external information service in the new situation. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Steering Committee for ExternalInformation Service on October 11 organised a national conference on studying🎉and implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 57-KL/TW dated June 15,2023, 💟on continuing to improve the quality and efficiency of externalinformation service in the new situation.
Conclusion No.57-KL/TW is an important legal document, affirmingthe Party's consistent policy on the role and importance of externalinformation work. It has a strategic orientation and a basis for agencies andunits to develop and perfect mechanisms, policies, and apparatus for externalinformation service.
In February 2012, the Politburo issued Conclusion No. 16-KL/TW on theexternal information service development strategy for the period of 2010 - 2020.After ten years of implementing Conclusion No. 16-KL/TW, the external informationwork achieved many important results, contributing to enhancing Vietnam'sposition and reputation in the international arena, protecting the Party'sideological foundation, protecting the regime, and serving the cause of nationalconstruction and development.
The Steering Committee for External InformationService made changes, achieving many important results in both organisation andimplementation of political tasks. The coordination between member agencies ofthe steering committee and between the ✤central steering committee andlocalities and press agencies has been increasingly strengthened and proved effective.
However, the external information work has been facing difficulties andlimitations, especially in the new situations with complicated unpredictablechanges in the world and the region. Thus, the external information work isrequired to keep innovating to catch up with trends of the era of science andtechnology. The issuance of Conclusion No.57-KL/TW shows the attention thatParty and State leaders have paid to the external information work. Speaking at the conference, Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the Communist Party ofVietnam (CPV) Central Committee, Chairman of its Commission for Information andEducation, and head of the Steering Committee for External Information Service, asked agencies and localities to further enhance their rolesand responsibilities in directing and organising the study and implementationof Conclusion No. 57-KL/TW. He emphasised the need to raise awareness among officials, Partymembers, and people about the importance of the external information work andVietnam's foreign policy and guidelines. Agencies and localities were asked to develop action programmes andplans to effectively implement the Conclusion. It is also necessary to continue to focus on building and training aforce working in the foreign information work, he said. He emphasised the need to mobilise resources in all three aspects ofhuman resources, material resources, and financial resources, both domesticallyand internationally, to effectively serve foreign information tasks,contributing to the successful implementation of national development goalsuntil 2030 with a vision to 2045 set at the 13th National Party Congress./.
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The Steering Committee for External Information Service on October 11 organises a national conference on studying and implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 57-KL/TW dated June 15, 2023, on continuing to improve the quality and efficiency of external information service in the new situation. (Photo: VNA) 
