Expanding friendly exchanges and cooperation, enhancing foreign affairs of Nghe An province

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Union of Friendship Organizations of Nghe An province chaired the conference. Attending the conference were Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Chairman of the Vietnam - US Friendship Association; representatives of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee.

Strengthening foreign information work

In the first 6 months of 2023, implementing the 2023 foreign information work program of Nghe An province of the Provincial Foreign Information Work Steering Committee, the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations actively promoted the Party's foreign affairs activities, State diplomacy and people's foreign affairs of the Central Government and the province through the People's Foreign Affairs Newsletter and the website of the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations of Nghe An province.

In particular, to meet the requirements of propaganda, promotion of the image, people, culture and innovation, development of the country and homeland of Nghe An as well as the policies, leadership, direction and management of the province on a larger scale, serving the information access needs of many subjects, especially Vietnamese people abroad, the Union of Friendship Organizations of Nghe An province has also built and is gradually perfecting the electronic information page with the domain name: lhhnna.org.vn.

The website integrates a lot of information and is connected to share information from Nghe An Newspaper; Nghe An Radio and Television Station and a number of websites of related departments, agencies and branches. The website is deployed in multiple languages, including Vietnamese, English, Lao, Thai, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

The Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations hosted the delegation of the Pacific Circle Organization (USA) and the Belgian Government delegation in Vietnam to attend a communication session on preventing and combating human trafficking and safe migration at Nguyen Duy Trinh High School, Nghi Loc District. Officials of the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations actively responded to write political essays on protecting the Party's ideological foundation.

The Union and its member organizations have paid attention to and promoted the mobilization of aid and the exploitation of resources. The results of 6 months of mobilization and calling on foreign non-governmental organizations and philanthropists with a total of nearly 450 million VND and 1 laptop. From the mobilized resources, hundreds of scholarships have been supported for Lao students studying abroad and poor students overcoming difficulties in high schools in the province.

The Union has also prepared a project profile and, through the Japanese Embassy, ​​submitted it to the Japanese authorities for consideration and approval of non-refundable aid to build 4 classrooms at Nghi Kieu Primary School, Nghi Loc District with a total cost of 1.7 billion VND; at the same time, it has prepared a project to work with the US Embassy in Hanoi to call for funding for the Project to build a foreign language classroom and a foreign language bookshelf at Cua Lo High School.

International relations and friendly exchanges are carried out by the Union.Provincial friendship organizations are interested in expanding and promoting. In the first 6 months of the year, the Union has organized to welcome and work with dozens of delegations and organizations from Korea, Japan, France, Thailand, Laos... to exchange students, teachers, cooperation plans, scientific research, foreign language teaching and establish cooperation projects in the coming time.

The union acts as a bridge for cooperation between the Japanese Bridge Joint Venture Company - Cienco4 (C4JB) working with wood pellet production companies in VSIP Industrial Park, Vinh Medical University, Viet Anh College, Central College of Transport..., related to opportunities for production cooperation and training of human resources to work in Japan.

The Union continues to pay attention to the work of strengthening the association's development and social security. Specifically, the Union has donated to the Tet for the Poor Program and the Fund for the Poor with a total of 110 million VND; and sponsored two orphaned children in difficult circumstances in Ha Huy Tap Ward, Vinh City.



On the side of friendship organizations, many activities are organized in the right direction, with focus and key points, contributing to deepening people-to-people diplomacy, strengthening connections between levels and sectors in the province with other countries.

Continue to expand and strengthen friendly exchanges

At the conference, based on the delegates' discussion opinions, in his concluding remarks, Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Union of Friendship Organizations of Nghe An province emphasized the role of people's foreign affairs and raised the requirement to continue to improve both breadth and depth, contributing to the foreign affairs of the Party and State for the goal of promoting the overall development of the province.

The Chairman of the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations also agreed on a number of issues related to the publication of the yearbook commemorating the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Nghe An Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations; at the same time, he requested to continue to perfect the electronic information page, paying attention to the content. In addition to linking and sharing information with electronic information pages inside and outside the province, it is necessary to proactively produce content that highlights, differentiates, and is specific to the mission of the Nghe An Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations, which is people-to-people foreign affairs activities.

Regarding the key tasks for the last 6 months of 2023, Comrade Nguyen Van Thong suggested focusing on preparing for the congresses of bilateral friendship organizations, including the Vietnam-UK Friendship Association; Vietnam-Germany Friendship Association, Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association, Vietnam-Poland Friendship Association, Vietnam-France Friendship Association, etc.; and at the same time, organizing activities to celebrate even-numbered years of establishing diplomatic relations between Vietnam and a number of countries.

The Union and its member organizations continue to pay attention to exploiting non-governmental support sources; proactively implementing people-to-people foreign affairs activities, expanding and enhancing friendly exchanges and cooperation with other countries, contributing to bringing the province's foreign affairs to a higher level, promoting the overall development of the province.