Nghe An Department of Foreign Affairs successfully fulfilled its role as head of the emulation cluster.

(Baonghean.vn) - Nghe An Department of Foreign Affairs handed over the responsibility of Head of Emulation Cluster No. 3 in 2018 to Thua Thien Hue Department of Foreign Affairs.

On the morning of November 28, Nghe An Department of Foreign Affairs - Head of Emulation Cluster No. 3 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs chaired the Conference to summarize emulation and reward work in 2017 and deploy tasks in 2018. Photo: TG

Speaking at the conference, the representative of the Head of Emulation Cluster No. 3 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2017, Mr. Tran Khanh Thuc - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Foreign Affairs emphasized that 2017 is a year of many important events related to local foreign affairs, especially activities within the framework of "APEC Vietnam Year 2017", the second year of implementing the 5-year socio-economic development plan (2016-2020) set out in the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress.

In that context, in general, the emulation and reward work of the units in the Emulation Cluster No. 3 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has many positive changes. The work of launching emulation movements, registering for emulation, building programs and plans to organize and implement in order to excellently complete the assigned political tasks.

Nghe An hosts the 11th APEC Senior Officials Forum on Disaster Management. Photo courtesy

In particular, some localities hosted APEC activities and successfully organized them, such as: Nghe An organized the 11th Senior Officials' Meeting on Natural Disasters; Quang Nam organized the Forum on Inclusive Finance, the Forum on Infrastructure Development Network, the Finance Ministers' Meeting, the Voice of the Future Program, the Program for Wives/Spouses of Senior Delegates...; Thua Thien Hue organized the 2017 APEC Women and Economic Forum; Da Nang coordinated the preparation and organization of the APEC High-Level Week with many exciting activities in 5 areas of work (facilities, logistics, security, health, propaganda, culture).

The patriotic emulation movement of the units was widely launched, with rich content and always renewed. The Foreign Affairs Department of the 9 provinces and cities in the cluster also always closely followed reality, linking the movement to study and follow Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle with the implementation of political tasks in each unit.

Mr. Tran Khanh Thuc - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Foreign Affairs, cluster leader reported on the summary of emulation and reward work in 2017. Photo: TG

“In addition to the achieved results, there are still certain limitations such as the emulation movement sometimes and in some places develops unevenly; many units in the cluster, because they focus on professional work, so the launching of emulation movements is still a formality, not linked to political tasks,” said Mr. Thuc.

Sharing at the conference, a representative of the Da Nang Department of Foreign Affairs said that people working in foreign affairs need to have a certain level of sensitivity. Photo: TG

Also at the conference, localities elected new Cluster Leaders and Deputy Cluster Leaders, launched emulation movements and signed emulation covenants for 2018.

Accordingly, the Department of Foreign Affairs of Thua Thien Hue received the handover from the Department of Foreign Affairs of Nghe An, holding the responsibility of Head of Emulation Cluster No. 3 next year, alongside the Deputy Head of Cluster, the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ha Tinh. The Department of Foreign Affairs of Nghe An is honored to be one of the units that will receive the emulation flag of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recognizing its outstanding achievements in the past time./.

Thu Giang