The Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam organized a conference to summarize the work in 2023 and directions and tasks in 2024

Attending the ceremony were Mr. Do Hung Viet - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Mrs. Pham Lan Dung - Acting President of the Diplomatic Academy; Mr. Nguyen Hung Son - Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy; Ms. Nguyen Thi Thin - Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy; leaders of units in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all officers, lecturers and staff working at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam.

According to the work report presented in the form of video clips shown at the conference and as well as presentations, it shows that in 2023, the Academy has strived to excellently complete the work plan and assigned tasks, contributing to the overall success of the Ministry and create an important foundation in implementing the Academy's development strategy with a vision to 2030. This is also the third year the Academy has moved to autonomy, ensuring regular expenditures according to regulations of the government.

Undergraduate and postgraduate training has many positive innovations and is increasingly professional: Training is practical, training content is close to reality; Enrolling a number of high-quality candidates, many candidates have international certificates and are among the top schools with the highest benchmark scores for majors in the country. Maintaining the attraction and brand of the Academy to a large number of students recognized by society.

The work of training foreign affairs officers continues to be implemented effectively, increasingly in depth: Projects are organized with diversification of training content divided into different target groups. As well as adjust and improve the program content to be closer to the actual needs of the work, in parallel with efforts to expand and diversify the team of lecturers/reporters... recognized by students and agencies.

Contributing to the overall success of the Academy is the research work: In 2023, the Academy has successfully completed many high-quality research products. Including scientific journals, report to Senior Leaders, project submitted to the Prime Minister... contributing to strategic advice on the country's foreign policy.

Track II diplomacy work and research and advice to protect the sovereignty of the East Sea continue to be promoted: The Academy continues to play a good role as our country's focal point in a number of channel 2 diplomatic networks in the region; Closely monitor complex developments in international relations and the situation in the East Sea to have timely research and policy recommendations for Ministry leaders and senior leaders on current affairs and new issues related to the East Sea, conflicts in hot spots in the region and the world.

Information and documentation work is gradually standardized: Assign tasks, deploy tasks based on KPIs, build, complete and apply 21 professional processes in the Center; Complete the first phase of operating and developing the digital library, bringing full-text scientific research online to serve the Ministry's research work. For the first time, purchasing and providing access to large Vietnamese and international scientific databases. Expanding account levels for a number of central agencies; First time purchasing ProQuest Cenral; Launching the new design of the print edition of the Journal of International Studies; New website opening.

The Academy's international cooperation work in the past year has been promoted: In 2023, the Diplomatic Academy signed dozens of MOUs with foreign partners. The number of MOUs signed in 2023 has increased many times compared to previous years, proving that more and more foreign partners know about the Diplomatic Academy and wish to promote cooperation with the Diplomatic Academy.

Regarding the development of facilities, the Academy is actively implementing procedures to implement major projects such as the Project "Strengthening training and research capacity with ODA and counterpart funds at the Foreign Academy". Assigned sponsors by Koica, Korea and the Project "Construction of facility 2 at 120 Tran Quoc Hoan", meeting the requirements of developing facilities, implementing the Academy's vision to 2030.

Acting President Pham Lan Dung stated the Academy's 2024 mission direction: Develop a job placement plan, promote the recruitment of officials and employees of the Academy. Complete amendments to Decision 07/2019/QD-TTg regulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Diplomatic Academy. Continue to improve regulations and procedures for the Academy's activities and speed up procedures for facilities. The Academy hopes to continue to receive guidance and support from the Ministry's leaders and units within the Ministry.

Leaders of the units attending the Conference congratulated the comprehensive and outstanding achievements of the Diplomatic Academy in the past year. The Diplomatic Academy brand today is not only domestic but has begun to reach an international level. The Diplomatic Academy is the destination for leading politicians, experts, and scholars when coming to Vietnam. That confirms the Academy's new and successful move.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet highly appreciated the presentations of Acting President Pham Lan Dung, units in the Academy and leaders of units in the Ministry; expressed impression about the Academy's development after 3 years of autonomy. Impressive development in both breadth and depth in training students at all levels, fostering officials for Ministries and local ministries, advising on research, and building the Diplomatic Academy.​

Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet proposed that the Academy continues to improve the quality of research, organize research and study trips close to the Ministry's requirements. The Deputy Minister expects the Academy to maintain and further promote the content of the report, advise the Ministry's leaders and cooperate with units in the Ministry to carry out research topics in the form of "order".

The Deputy Minister hopes that the Academy will have more and more articles published in International Research journals in foreign languages. Hopefully, when searching, the Academy's products will appear first.

The Deputy Minister expects the Academy to continue to promote its role in successfully organizing the forums that have become the Academy's trademark: the East Sea Conference series, the Mekong River Conference, the Future of ASEAN in hopes to receive new innovations and new ideas from the Academy.

The Deputy Minister thanked the Academy for always having "products", becoming signed documents for high-level meetings on visits of senior leaders of countries to Vietnam and senior leaders of Vietnam going abroad. The Deputy Minister hopes that the Diplomatic Academy will successfully implement the signed MOUs, especially exchanges of lecturers and students with partners so that countries can better understand Vietnam.

The Deputy Minister hopes that the Academy will soon complete procedures for implementing large projects such as the KOICA Project and facility project 2 at 120 Tran Quoc Hoan, requesting the Department of Financial Administration to strongly support the Academy's implementation and declare projects.

In the near future, the Academy is tasked with establishing the Vietnam Diplomacy Center located at the Institute of Strategic Studies. The Deputy Minister hopes that the Academy will soon complete the process and prepare forces to undertake the Center's tasks.

On behalf of all officials and employees of the Diplomatic Academy, Acting President Pham Lan Dung thanked the Ministry's leaders for their close attention and direction, creating the best conditions for the Academy's activities. The Academy wishes to continue to receive attention about the current job rotation policy for officers and employees of the Academy and promises to continue working with the Academy's staff, lecturers and staff to promote roles, responsibilities, and dynamism to successfully complete assigned tasks, contributing to the overall success of the Ministry.

(This article was translated into English with the assistance of Google Translate)