ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
Director General of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
Loi Nguyen Duc
- The 100-year development process of the Azerbaijan State News Agency (Azertac) has always accompanied the history of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Azertac now has proved its name as a major and prestigious state news agency in the region and the world. Azertac successfully performed its role as Chair of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) for 2016-2019 tenure, during which it exerted great efforts in developing OANA as a united, professional and humane regional media organisation. Not only a responsible member in multilateral press fora, Azertac has also set up bilateral relations with news agencies from around 30 countries over the world. Since the Vietnam News Agency and Azertac signed their Cooperation Agreement on October 3, 2014, both agencies have continually exchanged information and provided each other with an official source of news on significant political and diplomatic events; remarkable achievements in socio-economic development; culture and traditions; as well as potentials of cooperation between the two countries. Vietnam News Agency highly appreciates the quality of Azertac’s news, which covers a wide range of topics and is diversely delivered on various modern platforms. Information exchanged between the two news agencies has greatly contributed to nurturing the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Azerbaijan. On the 100th founding anniversary of Azertac (March 1, 1920 – March 1, 2020), I wish the Azertac leaders and fellow colleagues good health and success. I wish Chairman of Board Aslan Aslanov, a close friend of mine, many successes in leading Azertac to even greater achievements./.