Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association Thuan Huu (second, left) and President of the Confederation of Thai Journalists Mongkol Bangprapa (second, right) at their talks (Photo: VNA)
Bangkok (VNA) – A delegation of the VietnamJournalists Association (VJA) paid a working visit to Thailand from November 25to December 1.
Receiving the delegation, Thai Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister of Commerce Jurin Laksanawisit affirmed his country’ssupport for Vietnam’s hosting of ASEAN summits and related meetings in 2020,expressing his belief that the country will successfully serve as ASEAN Chairnext year.
He also highly valued the cooperation betweenthe Confederation of Thai Journalists (CTJ) and the VJA in the recent past.
At the talks with the VJA delegation, CTJPresident Mongkol Bangprapa, who is also head of the Confederation of ASEANJournalists, spoke highly of the VJA’s effective activities, especially whenthe association was in the chairmanship of the Confederation of ASEANJournalists between 2015 and 2018, which he said have greatly contributed toVietnam-Thailand relations, as well as Vietnam-ASEAN ties.
He noted cooperation between the CTJ and the VJAhas continually been enhanced over the last more than 20 years. They havefrequently exchanged delegations at all levels and coordinated well in relevantissues.
Mongkol asked the two sides to work closelytogether at upcoming events like ASEAN summits and related meetings in 2020,when Vietnam acts as ASEAN Chair.
For his part, VJA Chairman Thuan Huu, who isalso deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Information and Education Commission,said the two organisations have always cooperated closely with each other inbilateral and ASEAN-related issues, thereby helping to increase mutualunderstanding and exchange between the two countries’ press agencies andpeople.
Huu invited CTJ leaders and members to attendthe award ceremony of a writing contest on agriculture, farmers and rural areasfor ASEAN journalists to be held in Vietnam in early 2020. He also invited theThai media to report on ASEAN summits and related meetings in Vietnam nextyear.
At the talks, the two organisations reviewedtheir memorandum of understanding that was signed in 2015 and will expire atthe end of 2020. They stressed that they will step up all-level delegationexchanges, further report on each country’s situation, expand cooperation tonewspapers of sectors and localities, and open more Vietnamese and Thailanguage courses for each other’s reporters./.
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Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association Thuan Huu (second, left) and President of the Confederation of Thai Journalists Mongkol Bangprapa (second, right) at their talks (Photo: VNA) 
