General Director of Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi had a meeting with President Director of Indonesia’s news agency ANTARA Meidyatama Suryodiningrat in Jakarta on March 20 to discuss measures to increase bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
General Director of Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi (R) meets with President Director of Indonesia’s news agency ANTARA Meidyatama Suryodiningrat (Photo: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – General Director ofVietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi had a meeting with President Directorof Indonesia’s news agency ANTARA Meidyatama Suryodiningrat in Jakarta on March20 to discuss measures to increase bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
The two sides reiterated their commitments tofurther traditional cooperative ties in exchanging information and supporting respectivereporters.
They agreed to boost cooperation activitieswithin the framework of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)and promote the initiative of establishing an organisation to forgecollaboration among Southeast Asian news agencies and spread more informationabout the ASEAN Community.
General Director Nguyen Duc Loi said the organisationwill help embrace connectivity as well as share experience and improve theoperational efficiency of all news agencies in ASEAN, especially in providingprompt and accurate information about intra-and-extra bloc activities for thecommon development in Southeast Asia.
This idea has received warm support from other regionalnews agencies such as Cambodia’s AKP, Malaysia’s BERNAMA, Laos’ KPL, andThailand’s TNA, he noted.
President Director Meidyatama Suryodiningratsaid he will contact with the ASEAN Secretariat at the end of March or in earlyApril to present the idea and necessary steps to set up the organisation in2017 – the 50th founding anniversary of ASEAN.-VNA
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General Director of Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi (R) meets with President Director of Indonesia’s news agency ANTARA Meidyatama Suryodiningrat (Photo: VNA)
