Hanoi (VNA) – The Central Steering Committee for ExternalInformation Service should work harder to instruct external information work,ensuring its timeliness and liveliness.

The remark was made by head of the Central Steering Committee Vo Van Thuong ata conference in Hanoi on December 6, who underlined the need to increaseinformation in foreign languages and promote news through the internet and socialmedia.

Thuong, also head of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’sInformation and Education Commission, urged the Central Steering Committee tocomplete relevant legal documents and materialise roadmaps on developing nationalprint and e-newspapers serving external information work.

Participants at the conference agreed on the necessity to raise public awarenessof news for foreign service in the context of renewal, national constructionand development, and international economic integration.

They also called for closer coordination between relevant ministries,departments and agencies at central and local levels.

The Central Steering Committee will enhance its coordination with overseasVietnamese representative offices, while paying attention to the reform work,aiming to improve the efficiency of this kind of information.

A report presented at the conference shows that in 2017, the committee joinedhands with relevant agencies to implement a range of external activities, withthe most noteworthy being APEC Year 2017, especially the APEC Economic Leaders’Week in the central city of Da Nang in November.

Joint efforts were also made to highlight State visits to Vietnam by leaders ofthe world’s major economies like GeneralSecretary of the Communist Party of China and State PresidentXi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, along with Vietnam-Laos andVietnam-Cambodia friendship year, the report said.-VNA