Buenos Aires  (VNA) – General Director of theVietnam News Agency (VNA) Vu Viet Trang and President of the Argentine NationalNews Agency (Telam) Bernada Llorente signed a cooperation agreement in BuenosAires on April 24 (local time).

The signing took place following their talks thesame day as part of the ongoing official visit to Argentina by Chairman of the NationalAssembly Vuong Dinh Hue.

Highlighting new developments of cooperation betweenthe two news agencies, Trang said the agreement creates a foundation for themto officially exchange information, promote potential and strengths of eachcountry, and enhance exchanges between citizens, thus contributing to fosteringthe Vietnam-Argentina relationship.

Given a host of challenges facing the world,including fake news, it is a need for news agencies to reform themselves tocatch up with the evolving information landscape, she continued.

Cooperation enhancement and difficulty sharing arethe target which the two news agencies are working towards, Trang said, addingthat under the agreement, they will effectively roll out cooperation activitiessuch as information exchange with attention to multimedia products,support to journalists, and experience sharing.

VNA is stepping up the production of multimedia products, exchange of information among news agencies, and fight against fake news in the digital era, she said.

The two sides will also organise practicalactivities this year to increase information celebrating the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic ties, she said.

For her part, Llorente expressed her impressions onthe land and people of Vietnam as well as its economic achievements, after hertwo visits to the Southeast Asian nation.

She also noted her admiration for the Vietnamese people’sunyielding spirit and strong will, which were tested during the past strugglefor national liberation.

Vietnam remains an important priority partner ofArgentina in Asia, she said, stressing that Telam, as the national news agency ofArgentina, has always provided information on the Southeast Asian country.

The agreement will continue laying a foundation forthe two sides to expand their cooperation in press activities, thereby contributingmore to forging the relations between Vietnam and Argentina, Llorente said.

She also expressed her sentiments for Vietnam and her wish to further strengthen cooperation between Telam and VNA.

The leaders of the two news agencies discussed the models of operation of VNA and Telam, which have a long history of formation and development as both were established in 1945.

Telam is the biggest newsagency in Latin America, and churns out the second largest volume of pressproducts in Spanish in the world./.