The 11th National Award for External Relations Information is an annual award initiated by the Steering Committee for External Relations Information, the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation (the Standing Agency of the Steering Committee for External Relations Information), in collaboration with relevant agencies and units: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; the General Department of Politics under the People's Army of Vietnam, the Nhan Dan Newspaper, the Vietnam News Agency, the Vietnam Television, the Radio Voice of Vietnam, the Vietnam Journalists’ Association, the Vietnam Publishers’ Association, etc. The award is presented to authors or groups of authors with outstanding and exemplary external information works as stipulated in the Regulations and other relevant legal documents.