On the morning of June 8, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc presented the decision of the Minister of Foreign Affairs appointing Ms. Pham Thu Hang, Deputy Director of the Department of Press and Information and Deputy Spokesperson, to hold the position of Acting Director of the Department of Press and Information and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ms. Pham Thu Hang assumed the position of Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, replacing Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang after Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (December 2022).
Acting Director Pham Thu Hang has many years of experience working at the Department of Press and Information (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), holding many positions, and is very experienced in working with domestic and international press. From 2017-2020, Ms. Pham Thu Hang was Political Counselor at the Embassy of Vietnam in Washington DC, USA.
Thus, Ms. Pham Thu Hang is the fifth female spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had four female spokespersons: Ms. Ho The Lan (wife of former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan); Ms. Phan Thuy Thanh; Ms. Nguyen Phuong Nga (currently President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations) and Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang (currently Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs).
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