1. Mr.  Nguyen Quang Tuan – Permanent Deputy Director

Tel: (0204) 3992269

Fax: (0204) 3992238

Email: tuannq@bacgiang.gov.vn

1. Managing all tasks and duties of the department and bearing responsibilities for the overall operation of the department to the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Council and Provincial People's Committee (PPC), the PPC’s Chairman and by the law and being responsible for the specialized tasks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

  2. Taking in charge of external affairs of the Party: to advise the provincial Party Committee in  expansion of diplomatic relations, policies and routines for international integration of the province, develop directions, resolutions, programs, plans and schemes on foreign affairs of the provincial Party Committee, collect and recommend measures related to foreign affairs of the provincial Party Committee, help the provincial Party Committee in united management of local external activities, collaborate among external activities of the provincial Party Committee, local government, Fatherland Front and the unions, organizations in the locality.

  3. Taking in charge of economic diplomacy: to advise the provincial People’s Committee in economic diplomacy, build and implement approved external activities for local socio-economic development, play role as the connection between the provincial People’s Committee and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies in promoting and introducing potentials and advantages of the province, support implementation of trade, investment and tourism promotion and protect legal rights of foreign economic organizations.

4. Taking in charge of international cooperation and integration, making and implementing plans on international cooperation and integration of the province and schemes on establishment of friendly and cooperative relations with foreign partners.

5. Leading external information affair, providing and sharing information to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central Commission for External Affairs and Vietnam’s overseas representative agencies, following up and evaluating international and regional political and security situations affecting the locality and the province’s foreign affairs. Taking responsibility for the website and external bulletin of the department.

6. Appraising requests of foreign reporters for press activities in the province and submit Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee for permission, organizing interviews of provincial leaders with foreign reporters, providing information and managing activities of foreign reporters in accordance with law.

7. Taking in charge of managing and organizing international conferences and seminars in the locality, appraising contents of the international conferences and seminars, guiding and inspecting implementation of the regulations on managing and organizing international conferences and seminars.

8. Managing signing and implementing international agreements: conducting state management on signing and implementing international agreements in the locality.

9. Managing foreign non-governmental organizations affair (NGOs)

To Administrate operation of NGOs in the locality, providing opinions on issuance, extension, amendment and revoke of registration licenses and other activities of NGOs, guide and support NGOs in administrative procedures in surveying, building and implementing aid projects in accordance with laws, supervising operation of NGOs and NGOs’ staff in the locality and make reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Committee for foreign non-governmental organization affairs as stipulated.

To Implement NGOs’ aid mobilization, make mobilization programs and plans and support agencies, units and locals in NGOs’ aid mobilization, appraise NGOs’ aid packages ensuring political diplomacy.

10. Leading cultural diplomacy, establishing and implementing action plans for implementation of the cultural diplomacy strategies in each period.

11. Taking in charge of people-to-people relations.

12. Directing personnel affair, emulation and discipline. Being owner of the department’ account, managing its finance, assets and implementing the allocated budget in accordance with laws. Taking in charge of political protection and citizen mobilization of the agency.

13. Taking in charge of periodical and  unexpected reports and supervising implementation of the tasks and duties assigned by the provincial People’s Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee to the department.

14.Directing building working culture, protecting security and order and administration of the department.

15. Directing information and technology and administrative reform.

16. Managing diplomatic protocol.

17. Taking in charge of inspection of foreign affairs, handling complaints and denunciations and corruption prevention.

18. Directing training in foreign affairs

19. Acting as legal reporter and spokesman of the Department of Foreign Affairs

20.  Directly leading the Office, International Cooperation Division, Editorial of the website and external bulletin of the department.

2. Mr Pham Duong Tuyen – Deputy Director

Tel: (0204) 3992232

Fax: (0204) 3992238

Email: tuyenpq_sngv@bacgiang.gov.vn

1. Managing operation of the department on behalf of the Director when being authorized and bearing responsibility to the Director and law for assigned tasks and authorized duties.

2. Managing exit and immigration delegations, organizing working delegations of the province to go abroad, making and implementing the schemes to receive foreign missions to visit and work with the provincial leaders.

3. Taking in charge of consular affairs: managing exit and immigration activities of the public officials using diplomatic and official passports, receiving and checking dossiers, managing and requesting for issuance, extension and amendment of diplomatic and official passports at the locality as regulated, processing application for consular citification and legalization and requests for using APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC).

4. Taking in charge of citizen protection, handling arising issues in citizen protection for overseas Bac Giang people, guiding and managing foreign organizations and individuals in the province in accordance with law.

5. Leading overseas Vietnamese affairs: to implement the programs, plans and policies on overseas Vietnamese in the locality, provide information about policies and guidelines of the Party and State for overseas Vietnamese, mobilize and support overseas Vietnamese and their relatives in working, doing business, living and studying in the locality, revise, evaluate and recommend solutions for overseas Vietnamese affairs.

6. Managing activities of the unions in the department.

7. Directly leading the Division of Consular affairs and Overseas Vietnamese, Foreign Services and Information Center.

8. Performing other tasks as assigned by the Director