Chapter III
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR MANAGEMENT OF EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES
Article 18. The Ministry of Information and Communication
1. Prepare and cooperate with related agencies in preparing and providing guidance on implementation of legislative documents, strategies, plans, schemes and programs for external communication activities.
2. Provide domestic news and media agencies with external communication contents.
3. Preside over and cooperate with competent authorities in international cooperation in external communication activities.
4. Preside over, collaborate with related bodies in inspecting and assessing the effectiveness in external communication activities carried out by Ministries, Ministry-level agencies, Government agencies and provincial People's Committees, foreign and domestic news and publishing agencies.
5. Set out the mechanism for exchanging, cooperating on, supplying and sharing information between state agencies and news agencies.
6. Set up and put forward the plan for training in external communication skills and professional operations for officials charged with external communication activities within Ministries, Ministry-level agencies, provincial People's Committees, news and publishing agencies, and staff of editors and translators.
7. Inspect, examine and handle violations, complaints and accusations during external communication activities in accordance with laws.
8. Compile and provide the Government with reports on external communication activities; provide guidance on report contents and time during which data is collected for reporting purposes.
9. Carry out preliminary and final review meetings on external communication activities; reward or sanction agencies, organizations and individuals engaged in external communications activities.
Article 19. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1. Preside over, collaborate with Ministries, Ministry-level agencies, Government agencies and provincial People's Committees concerned in organizing external communication activities in overseas countries; cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications in administration of external communication activities performed in overseas countries.
2. Give speeches on standpoints of Vietnam concerning international issues; organize international press releases; make preparations for interviews of the leadership of the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with foreign correspondents.
3. Cooperate with relevant Ministries, agencies in instructing domestic news agencies to report news about diplomatic activities of the leadership of the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and collaborate in providing guidance on reporting international and domestic news relating to diplomatic activities.
4. Monitor, study and aggregate opinions among foreign press used for diplomatic information.
5. Provide guidance on, and provide information for Vietnam’s news agencies; provide information for Vietnamese expatriate communities living abroad and international communities; provide worldwide information for Vietnamese citizens.
Article 20. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
1. Preside over, cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications and relevant agencies in providing information, advertising and promoting Vietnam's culture and tourism.
2. Preside over, collaborate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Information and Communications, relevant Ministries and agencies in organizing events in overseas countries within their management.
3. Direct foreign Centers of Vietnamese Culture to carry out external communication activities within their area, and efficiently use and provide favorable conditions for related agencies to use foreign Centers of Vietnamese Culture to assist in external communication activities.
Article 21. The Ministry of Public Security
1. Preside over, collaborate with the Ministry of Information and Communications in providing guidance on and checking compliance with regulations on diplomatic cyber security activities of domestic and foreign organizations, individuals in order to ensure that external communication activities will comply with provisions laid down in this Decree.
2. Monitor and aggregate information relating to diplomatic security to propose any guidelines and measures to explain and clarify misstated information about Vietnam.
3. Ensure security and safety for external communication activities in compliance with the aims and objectives laid down by the Communist Party and the Government; discover and combat activities performed by hostile forces exploiting foreign information to protest against Vietnam's government.
4. Preside over, cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications and relevant Ministries and agencies in organizing specialized external communication activities through particular channels and measures, and in contributing to ensuring Vietnam’s national interest and security.
Article 22. The Ministry of Finance
1. Preside over, cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications in verifying the annual budget plan for external communication activities, and send it to competent authorities for ratification purposes.
2. Ensure a sufficient amount of funding sources for implementation of programs, plans, schemes and operations relating to external communication activities which have been approved by the Government and the Prime Minister.
3. Preside over, cooperate with relevant agencies in creating legal documents on regulations and policies and permitted limits on the budget for external communication activities.
Article 23. The Ministry of Home Affairs
Cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications in issuing instructional documents on reinforcement of the machinery in charge of state management of external communication activities; provide instructions for Ministries, Ministry-level agencies, Government agencies, provincial People's Committees in appointing officials charged with external communication activities.
Article 24. Ministries, Ministry-level agencies, Government agencies and provincial People’s Committees
1. Provide the people with information to raise their awareness of the international integration process of Vietnam, opportunities, risks and challenges during this process; organize professional training classes to improve external communication skills of officers in charge of external communication activities.
2. Direct development and organize execution of action programs and plans for external communication activities within these organizations and localities.
3. Create the action plan for external communication activities and estimate the budget for such activities of each organization on an annual basis, and generally account for expenses into the budget plan of each organization before sending this to finance authorities at the same level for aggregation purposes as well as submit it to competent authorities for consideration and decision purposes.
4. Update information and set up the database relating to Ministries, departments and localities and integrate such information into the database regarding diplomatic information in order to promote Vietnam's image to overseas countries.
5. Cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications in carrying out international cooperation activities as part of external communication activities.
6. Carry out preliminary and final review of external communication activities within their remit, and send a report to the Ministry of Information and Communications or send ad-hoc reports for the purpose of making final reports for submission to the Government.
7. Assign organizations or individuals to take charge of organizing external communication activities.
8. Maintain the security of information within their management in accordance with regulations on information security; assume responsibility to inspect, check and handle violations and settle complaints and accusations that may arise from external communication activities within their management.
9. Ministries, Ministry-level agencies, Government agencies and provincial People's Committees, and Vietnamese news and media agencies, shall be responsible for compiling periodic and ad-hoc reports on external communication activities within the remit of these organizations and localities.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 72/2015/NĐ-CP (Bản Word)
Nghị định 72/2015/NĐ-CP (Bản Pdf)