At the conference, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang shared knowledge about foreign information work; the Party and State's policies on foreign information work; practical implementation of foreign information work in recent years; some solutions to innovate foreign information work; tasks, forms and measures of foreign information work at the local level.

At the same time, Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang communicated about the work of speaking and providing information to the press. In which, she affirmed the role of the spokesperson, things that the spokesperson needs to pay attention to; skills in providing information to the press and handling information in crisis situations, including skills in contacting, answering interviews, providing information to the press and experience in handling information in crisis situations...

Speaking at the Conference, Mr. Nguyen Luu Trung - Vice Chairman of Kien Giang Provincial People's Committee affirmed that the work of speaking and providing information to the press is the responsibility of agencies, units, localities, and directly the heads. Therefore, it requires the heads to have a firm grasp of legal documents on the press, speaking skills and providing information to the press.

Mr. Nguyen Luu Trung assessed that the work of speaking and providing information to the press is sometimes not proactive and timely. Some agencies and units are afraid to contact the press; have not organized timely handling of issues reported by the press. Coordination work, especially in handling urgent, complicated, sensitive issues, is sometimes passive; has not effectively exploited the advantages of information technology, new communication methods on the internet, social networks... especially there are still limitations in building a rapid response force in cyberspace.

According to the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Kien Giang province, in recent times, the promotion of the potential and strengths of Kien Giang land and people on the media has developed but has not yet met the requirements of foreign information in the new situation.

“Vietnam is in the process of increasingly deep integration with other countries in the world; therefore, every piece of information in the press can directly or indirectly affect the development of the locality. Therefore, providing information to press agencies also aims to create conditions for the press to operate in accordance with the law, limiting the situation of the press lacking information, leading to one-sided reporting, lacking objectivity, lacking comprehensiveness and being inaccurate,” Mr. Nguyen Luu Trung emphasized.

G.Khanh