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1. Managing and licensing the foreign information and press activities including:
a) Licensing foreign reporters who come to perform information and press activities in Vietnam;
b) Licensing the foreign press to open permanent office in Vietnam and use foreign reporters, press
assistantsand collaborators;
c) Managing information and press activities of foreign reporters and permament offices in Vietnam.
d) Coordinating with the ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies directly under the
Government and People's Committees of centrally-affiliated provinces and cities to settle the
professional and technical requirements; import and export of professional and technical
requirements; entry, exit, residence and travelling requirements; press assistant provision to the
permanent offices and other requirements to serve information and press activities of foreign press in
Vietnam.
2. Coordinating with the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism to resolve the requirements on information and press activities of foreign representative
agencies and organizations in Vietnam.
3. Guiding the implementation of the provisions on information and press activities of the foreign
press under the competence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
4. Assuming the prime responsibility and coordinating with the ministries, ministerial-level agencies,
the agencies directly under the Government and People's Committees of centrally-affiliated provinces
and cities to regularly and annually review and make report on the implementation of the provisions
on information and press activities of foreign press under the competence of the Ministry of foreign
Affairs.
Article 23. Responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communications
1. Managing and licensing information and press activities of the foreign representative agencies and
organizations including:
a) Publishing and circulating foreign information publications;
b) Press conference in Vietnam;
c) Posting news, articles and statements on Vietnamese mass media
d) Displaying pictures and other forms of information outside the headquarters of foreign
representative agencies and organizations in Hanoi.
2. Guiding the implementation of the provisions on information and press activities of foreign
representative agencies and organizations under the competence of the Ministry of Information and
Communications.
3. Assuming the prime responsibility and coordinating with the ministries, ministerial-level agencies,
the agencies directly under the Government and People's Committees of centrally-affiliated provinces
and cities to regularly and annually review and make report on the implementation of the provisions
on information and press activities of foreign press under the competence of the Ministry of
information and Communications.
Article 24. Responsibility of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
1. Managing and licensing the hanging of panels, posters and monitors outside the foreign
representative agencies and organizations in Hanoi; film projection, exhibitions and other promotional
activities in Hanoi with invitation to Vietnamese citizens for attendance of the foreign representative
agencies and organizations.