VNA Director General Vu Viet Trang (fourth, right) and PL President Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta exchange cooperation agreement documents (Photo: VNA) Welcoming the PL leader, Trang briefed the guest on the situationof the VNA and its development orientations towards a multimedia news agencyplaying the key role in the Vietnam’s press system.
Showing delight at the cooperation outcomes between the twonews agencies over the past four decades, the VNA leader affirmed that the two sides have enjoyed close partnership on the foundation of the Vietnam-Cuba solidarityand friendship established by President Ho Chi Minh and Cuban leader FidelCastro.
In the current period, they should continue tostrengthen cooperation and implement new cooporation projects, she said.
For his part, the PL leader thanked the VNAfor its support in all fields since the two news agencies set up theirpartnership in 1966, and pledged to continue backing the Vietnamese news agency's representative office inCuba and assist its affiliate Vietnam Pictorial in enhancing the quality of the Spanishversion.
The two sides reviewed their cooperation programmes since2020 in various fields, agreed on the significance of their cooporation, andreaffirmed that the partnership has contributed to strengthening the mutualunderstanding and traditional friendship between the two countries.
Leaders of the two news agencies concurred to resume annual high-levelexchanges starting from 2023 after two years of interruption due to the COVID-19pandemic. Trang invited the PL leader to visit Vietnam on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s historical visit to Vietnam(September 1973-2023).
An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA) The VNA hailed contributions by PL experts in enhancing thequality of foreign service information in Spanish of the VNA as well astraining VNA sub-editors. Leaders of the two sides agreed to extend the workingterm of PL experts in Vietnam to two years instead of one year.
They will work together to organise photo exhibitions inVietnam and Cuba to mark the 50th anniversary of Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s visitto Vietnam, with the PL sending photos to the VNA for display.
The VNA opened its representative office in Havana in 1966, the firstin the Latin American region.
Since then, the VNA and the PL have signed many cooperationagreements, with the latest in 2018. The two sides haveprovided each other with news in English, French and Spanish, and the PL has sentits experts to the VNA every year to support the latter to produce Spanish newsand train VNA sub-editors as well as printing and circulating the Spanish-version ofthe Vietnam Pictorial. They have supported each other’s correspondents, withthe VNA providing parts of operation costs for the PL office in Hanoi. In 2018,the VNA presented the PL with an industrial printer.
The partnership between the VNA and the PL is considered a model of successful international cooperation of the VNA in both wartime and currentperiod./.
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