Hanoi (VNA) – Secretary of the PartyCommittee of the Central Agencies' Bloc Nguyen Van The commended press agencies, sectors and Hanoi for their contributions to national achievements over the pasttime, while addressing a meeting in the capital city on June 8.

They have played a role in promoting the image andaffirming the position of the Party Committee, the official stressed.

The meeting, held by the Party Committee, honoured thepress agencies and their reporters and editors, as well as sectors and Hanoifor their performance in the communications work in the 2020-2023 period.

The asked the press agencies to carryforward their achievements and better perform their political tasks in serviceof the Party’s revolutionary cause, and the national cause of reform,integration and development, while stepping up the dissemination about theParty Committee’s fulfillment of its political tasks.

The information work should focus on political affairs,role models, patriotic emulation movements, and the campaign on studying andfollowing President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and lifestyle, hesuggested.
The expressed his hope that the agencies will maintaintheir role as information channels disseminating directives and resolutions ofthe Party in general and the Party Committee in particular, and reflectingaspirations and opinions of officials and Party members, thus contributing toconsolidating confidence and consensus in the entire Party and the whole society.

They also should uphold the role as the core forcein protecting the Party’s ideological foundation, refuting wrongful and hostile views, and guiding public opinions, and should build a healthy informationenvironment, the official continued.

The urged the press agencies to update technologiesand expand information channels, saying such agencies as Nhan dan (People)Newspaper, the Vietnam News Agency, the Vietnam Television and radio The Voiceof Vietnam need to promote their key role in the information work.

The official expressed his hope for more coordinationfrom the press agencies, and his belief that they will continue joining effortsin building the Party Committee, making it stronger and purer.

The standing board of the Party Committee also askedthe press agencies to intensify the dissemination about the implementation ofthe Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, and resolutions andconclusions adopted by the Party Central Committee and the Party Committee,along with major festivals and political events, the protection of the Party’sideological foundation and the fight against wrong and hostile views./.