Vietnam News Agency resumes cooperation with Polish counterpart
Vietnam News Agency and Polish Press Agency have agreed to exchange information and enhance professional cooperation in the time to come, resuming their ties after a long time of interruption.
Hanoi (VNA) – TheVietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Polish Press Agency (PAP) have agreed toexchange information and enhance professional cooperation in the time to come,resuming their ties after a long time of interruption.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed by VNA GeneralDirector Nguyen Duc Loi and Polish Ambassador to Vietnam Barbara Szymanowska inHanoi on November 28.
The signing was witnessed by President Tran Dai Quang and his Polishcounterpart Andrzej Duda who is on a State visit to Vietnam from November27-30.
Under the MoU, the two agencies will exchange text news, photos and video clipsin English, for the purpose of publishing on their news channels.
They also consented to support each other’s correspondents working in therespective countries.
The VNA and the PAP first signed a cooperativeagreement in 1978. However, the deal is no longer effective due to historicalchanges.
The signing of the new document is in line with the VNA’s policy onintensifying international cooperation in order to develop its foreign newsservices, and to access direct information about Central Europe where theagency has yet to establish a bureau.
The cooperation also runs along the Party’s and State’s foreign policy on diversifying and multilateralising foreign relations.
Established in 1918, the PAP is Poland’s largest media agency with about 300reporters.
Meanwhile, the State-owned VNA boasts a network of 63bureaus in all the cities and provinces nationwide and 30 overseas bureausacross five continents.
With more than 60 media products by more than 1,000 reporters andeditors out of its 2,400-strong staff, the VNA is now the media office with thelargest number of products in the country: bulletins, photos, televisionprogrammes, dailies, weeklies, monthlies, magazines, pictorials, books, TVchannel, e-newspapers and information programmes on mobile platforms.
The agency also delivers news in the largest number of languages.In addition to official Vietnamese-language news provided for domestic andforeign media outlets, stories for foreign service are written in English,Chinese, French and Spanish, not to mention print and e-newspapers in fourother languages, namely Lao, Korean, Japanese and Russian.-VNA
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At the signing ceremony (Source: VNA) 
