Overview of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam'smeeting with AKP Deputy General Director Keo Chandara (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has pledgedthat the Party, State and Government of Vietnam always back the Vietnam NewsAgency (VNA) and Cambodia’s news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) tofurther bolster their cooperation in the future.
At a meeting with AKP Deputy General Director Keo Chandara in Hanoi onSeptember 12, the Deputy PM said that the two agencies should actively worktogether to provide people of both sides with accurate news of the twocountries and their sound relations.
VNA and AKP should continue their traditional affiliation activities andseek new measures to improve cooperation efficiency, he said, adding that bothsides should make full use of opportunities from the digital era.
Along with contributing to the bilateral ties, the two agencies shouldstrengthen cooperation in the framework of ASEAN and other regional andinternational collaboration mechanisms to which they are members, said theDeputy PM.
He highlighted that Vietnam always gives top priority to thereinforcement and development of friendship and multi-dimensional cooperationwith Cambodia. He lauded the VNA’s launching of a news column on theVietnam-Cambodia relations on the occasion of the Vietnam-Cambodia FriendshipYear 2017.
He told his guest that 2017 is a special year for external activities inVietnam as it plays hosts the APEC Year 2017, asking the AKP to activelycooperate with the VNA to popularize the images of Vietnam, its people, cultureand foreign relations achievements to Cambodian people and internationalfriends.
For his part, Kep Chandara briefed his host on the outcomes of his talkswith VNA leaders.
He said the two agencies reached an agreement on the promotion ofcooperation and mutual support in professional activities, as well as theupgrade of infrastructure system, thus contributing to deepening mutualunderstanding and friendship between people of both countries.-VNA
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