Participants pose for a group photo (Photo: VNA) Participants mulled over responsible and sustainableinternational collaboration in climate change, which they considered one of thebiggest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, especially indeveloping countries.
Nguyen Thuy Anh, Chairwoman of NA Committee for SocialAffairs, recommended parliaments of Francophone countries soon incorporate internationalcommitments on climate change into domestic law and practice; and strengthen the monitoring of and allocate budget for climate change response.
The countries need to fulfill their national obligations injoining the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the ParisClimate Accords, and other international conventions, she noted.
Concerning the role of parliaments in health crisis control,reconstruction and socio-economic development, representatives ofsub-committees proposed that parliaments of Asia-Pacific and Francophone countries strengthen governmentalcoordination and supervision in the prevention and control of COVID-19, and newdiseases in the future; as well as continue to improve their epidemicprevention methods.
The Vietnamese sub-committee highlighted the importance ofparliamentary cooperation and support within the Francophone community to pushback epidemics, bolster socio-economic growth, complete institutions and laws, andincrease the medical system’s sustainability and resilience. It is also necessaryto beef up bilateral and multilateral collaboration and experience exchangesbetween parliaments in disease prevention and control.
NA Vice Chairman Tran Thanh Man said topics discussed at theconference are pressing ones that are vital for the Asia-Pacific region,especially in the context of countries still being heavily impacted by COVID-19and the extremely complicated climate change situation.
The conference passed a summary report and a regulation forthe operation of the Asia-Pacific region in the APF./.
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