This afternoon, January 17, the Department of Foreign Affairs of Quang Tri held a conference to review foreign affairs work in 2024, deploy key tasks in 2025; and meet with foreign experts on the occasion of the Lunar New Year. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam attended.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam awarded the Certificate of Merit of the Provincial People's Committee Chairman to the Department of Foreign Affairs - Photo: TP
In 2024, foreign affairs will be implemented proactively, synchronously, creatively and effectively. Thereby, it will make an important contribution to socio-economic development, protecting sea and island sovereignty, building a peaceful, friendly, cooperative and developing border; continuing to enhance the position and image of Quang Tri province to international friends.
Local foreign affairs continue to be maintained and achieve many new developments in various fields. Economic diplomacy has played an important role in attracting new resources to serve the socio-economic development of the province. Quang Tri has mobilized 274 foreign non-governmental programs and projects with a total value of over 100 million USD in the period of 2021 - 2025, an average of 25 million USD/year, exceeding the target of the whole period.
In 2024 alone, the disbursement value reached over 22 million USD, approximately 12% of the total provincial budget revenue. The mobilization of non-governmental aid exceeded the plan with nearly 10 million USD in non-refundable aid commitments. Attracting ODA and FDI capital achieved many positive results in completing negotiation procedures and investment preparation, laying the foundation for deploying resources in the coming years.
Cultural diplomacy, citizen protection work and work with overseas Vietnamese, and foreign information and propaganda have been implemented effectively, with quality and many innovations. The construction and development of the foreign affairs sector continues to be promoted step by step to meet the requirements of the tasks, focusing on strengthening Party building, building a team of foreign affairs cadres and specialized departments in agencies, units and localities with increasingly more professional qualities, style, capacity and qualifications.
In 2025, Quang Tri province identifies the overarching task for foreign affairs and diplomacy as strongly promoting the pioneering, important, and regular role in creating and maintaining a peaceful and stable environment.
Along with that is firmly protecting independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, mobilizing external resources, continuing to build and promote the image and culture of Quang Tri to international friends of the country; together with the whole country, accelerating, breaking through, firmly entering the new era - the era of national growth.
Continue to synchronously deploy and raise the level of foreign affairs, including Party foreign affairs, State diplomacy and people-to-people diplomacy; bilateral and multilateral foreign affairs; political diplomacy, economic diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, foreign information, work with overseas Vietnamese, citizen protection, etc.
Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam emphasized that 2025 is a year of special importance, deciding the completion of the goals, targets and tasks of the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress; The 5-year Socio-Economic Development Plan 2021 - 2025.
Therefore, the local foreign affairs sector needs to continue to effectively implement the foreign affairs orientation in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress. Strengthen cooperation in economic development, trade, investment, and tourism with neighboring provinces of Laos, Thailand, and other partners. Raise the level of foreign affairs, bring cooperation with partners into depth, practicality, and effectiveness. Continue to implement the signed minutes with partners and seek to establish new friendly and cooperative relationships with provinces and cities with potential, strengths, similarities, and comparative advantages.
Strengthening the border of peace, friendship and cooperation; creating strong changes in cooperation for socio-economic development in border areas. Effectively combining cultural diplomacy and foreign information, proactively promoting cultural strength, promoting and introducing the land, people, unique features of Quang Tri people and the potential and advantages of the province to international friends. Further improving the working capacity, professional foreign affairs skills of civil servants working in diplomacy and foreign affairs...
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam presents gifts to experts, volunteers, and foreign project offices - Photo: TP
At the conference, collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in the province's foreign affairs work in 2024 were commended and rewarded.
On behalf of the provincial leaders, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam presented meaningful Tet gifts to experts, volunteers, and foreign project offices operating in Quang Tri province.
Truc Phuong
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/trien-khai-nhiem-vu-cong-tac-doi-ngoai-nam-2025-191170.htm
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