Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina Nguyen Dinh Thao presented the 2014 National External Information Service Award to journalist Horacio Rana from Argentina’s Telam national news agency in Buenos Aires on July 14.

Rana is Head of the Telam’s world news department and one of the four foreign journalists to attend Viet Nam’s first ever external information service awards.

He submitted a series of stories about Viet Nam’s country and people written in Spanish after his visit to Viet Nam in 2014.

He expressed his honour to receive the award and said Vietnamese and Argentine journalists should continue to write about their own history, economic achievements and the two countries’ sound cooperative ties.

Rana said he witnessed changes in Viet Nam with his own eyes and thus reflected the country’s history and dynamic development in his stories.

He said the deepest impression during his visit to Viet Nam is the people’s altruism and efforts to address post-war consequences for a brighter future.

(Source: VNA)