CLARIFICATION INFORMATION MUST BE SUPPLIED WITHIN 07 DAYS
On March 08, 2019, the Ministry of Information and Communications issues the Circular No. 02/2019/TT-BTTTT guiding the management of external information activities of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies.
Particularly, within 7 (seven) days after receiving a notice from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the ministries shall make statements and provide explanatory and clarification information and concurrently send them to the Ministry of Information and Communications for monitoring, summarization and reporting to the Prime Minister.
Ministries shall proactively implement information and propaganda measures to protect and enhance their prestige and image in the following forms: issuing press releases to explain and clarify false information; spokespersons of the ministries and their specialized agencies making statements and providing information to the press; appointing representatives of leaders or spokespersons to attend the press briefing meetings; posting up explanatory and clarification information on the portals of the ministries and their specialized agencies; in communication products of news and press agencies and in other media, in Vietnamese and foreign languages; providing information for news and press agencies to explain, clarify and fight false information.
Explanatory and clarification materials, documents, dossiers and arguments include the following major contents as contents of false information and updated information from the time false information occurs to the time of explanation and clarification; impacts of false information on the prestige and image of the ministries and the country; and the nature of the facts or phenomena about which false information is provided…
This Circular takes effect on April 22, 2019.
