Hanoi (VNA)🐈 – Director General of the Vietnam NewsAgency (VNA) Vu Viet Trang on August 28 had a meeting with a delegation from theGovernments of the French-Speaking Community of Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles)and the Walloon Region in Vietnam.

At the meeting, Trang congratulated Nicolas Dervaux,Representative of the Governments of the French-speaking Community of Belgiumand the Walloon Region in Vietnam, for completing his term andwelcomed his successor Pierre Du Ville. Telling her guests about the development of the VNA, Trang saidthat it was officially established on September 15, 1945. It broadcast the Declaration of Independence which gave birth to the DemocraticRepublic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in three languages - Vietnamese, English, and French. She emphasised French was one of the first two languages that the VNA used for its external service information. Currently, the VNA has carried out this kind of service in 10 languages, and French is still used as akey language of the agency's foreign service information work. Trang said over the past time, the Governments of theFrench-speaking Community of Belgium and the Wallonia region has implementedcooperation projects with Vietnam in various fields, bringing practical benefits toVietnam's ministries and sectors, especially in human resources training. The VNA is also a beneficiary of the effective cooperationrelationship between the two sides, Trang said, noting the project to improveFrench proficiency and journalism skills for VNA’s French-language reporters. She also expressed her hope that within theframework of a visit to Vietnam by the King and the Queen of Belgium in 2024, the VNAcan cooperate with Wallonie-Bruxelles to open a photo exhibition or multimediashow featuring products of beneficiaries of the project. At the meeting, Nicolas Dervaux affirmed the successful cooperative relationship between the Government of Wallonia-Bruxelles and Vietnam ingeneral, and between its diplomatic mission and the VNA in particular. The Wallonie-Bruxelles government highly values thecooperative relationship with the VNA, taking the new agency as its importantpartner. Meanwhile, Pierre Du Ville said that in 2023 and 2024, thetwo sides will have a lot of activities to implement cooperation, especiallythe visit to Vietnam by the King and the Queen of Belgium in 2024 which will open anew cooperation relationship. He said that he will subsequently inform Belgium’s King and Queen as well asVietnamese leaders about the cooperation relation with the VNA./.