Implementing Conclusion No. 57 of the Politburo on foreign information work in the new situation

Comrades: Nguyen Trong Nghia - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department; Le Hoai Trung - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central External Relations Department co-chaired the conference.

At Nghe An province, comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the conference. Attending the conference were comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; leaders of relevant departments, agencies and branches.

Conclusion No. 57 of the Politburo emphasizes the viewpoint that foreign information work is an important part of the Party's political, ideological and foreign affairs work, state diplomacy, and people's diplomacy; it is a regular, long-term task of the entire political system under the Party's leadership.

Closely connect, synchronously deploy, focus on foreign information and domestic information, between party foreign affairs, state diplomacy and people's diplomacy. Promote the combined strength of the entire political system, while mobilizing the active participation of the people, Vietnamese compatriots abroad and international friends. Foreign information needs to be proactive, highly predictive; harmoniously combine "building" and "fighting".

Continuously innovate content and diversify foreign information methods according to the motto "Proactive, synchronous, timely, creative, effective", suitable to the needs of domestic and foreign audiences, regions and areas, focusing on countries and territories that have great influence on national development.

Conclusion No. 57 of the Politburo identifies five groups of tasks and solutions with the goal of promoting and disseminating Vietnam as a peaceful, friendly, cooperative, developing country, a friend, a reliable partner, an active and responsible member in the international community, contributing to enhancing the position and prestige of the country and the Communist Party of Vietnam in the international arena; arousing patriotism, consolidating the strength of national solidarity and the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country.

Strengthening people's trust in the Party, the State and the socialist regime; effectively implementing the foreign policy of the Party and the State; gaining the sympathy and support of the international community, creating favorable conditions for the cause of innovation, building and defending the Fatherland, successfully implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the country's development goals until 2045.

The Central Propaganda Department has issued Guidelines for studying, learning, thoroughly grasping, propagating and implementing Conclusion No. 57 of the Politburo on continuing to improve the quality and effectiveness of foreign information work in the new situation.

In particular, it requires Party committees, Party organizations, and leaders of agencies and units to seriously and effectively research, study, disseminate, propagate, and implement Conclusion No. 57; and carry out tasks and solutions in accordance with the functions and tasks of the agency, unit, locality, and themselves.

Regularly urge, inspect, supervise, summarize, review and evaluate experiences; promptly commend and reward new models and good practices in research, study, dissemination, propaganda and implementation of Conclusion No. 57.

At the conference, delegates discussed topics on improving the effectiveness of Party foreign information work and people's foreign information work in the new situation; the world and regional situation and issues arising for foreign information work in the new situation; foreign information work in the defense sector contributing to protecting national security early and from afar;...

Concluding the conference, comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department emphasized that the world and regional situation in the coming time is forecast to continue to develop rapidly, complicatedly and unpredictably. Besides opportunities and advantages, our country also faces many difficulties and challenges.

To contribute to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the country's development goals by 2045, the Party Central Committee Secretary and Head of the Central Propaganda Department emphasized that it is necessary to continue to thoroughly grasp, concretize, and effectively organize the implementation of the Party's policies on foreign information work.

In addition, continue to improve the quality and effectiveness of foreign information work to meet the requirements of the new period, protect national security early and from afar; promote the combined strength of the entire political system, raise awareness and responsibility of Party committees, Party organizations, authorities at all levels, leaders, cadres, Party members and people; strengthen propaganda, honor and introduce the ideological values, ethics and style of President Ho Chi Minh.

Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia also requested to continue innovating the content and methods of foreign information, focusing on introducing and strongly spreading to the international community the history, traditions, image of the country, people, culture, achievements of the renovation process, and the noble values ​​and thoughts of the Vietnamese people.

Strengthen state resources, encourage and mobilize social resources for foreign information work; build a team of specialized staff for foreign information work.

On the other hand, we must persistently and actively fight against false and negative information that is harmful to the national interests, the country's development process and the Party's leadership role. We must ensure that positive information is the main information flow; we must resolutely overcome the situation of providing inaccurate, false and unverified information.