During talks in Hanoi on October 6 the Vietnamese audit chief asked his Slovak counterpart to provide technical assistance for State Audit of Vietnam, with funding to come from Slovak Official Development Assistance (ODA) and State budgets.

Talks between Auditor General Vuong Dinh Hue and President of Slovakia’s Supreme Audit Office (SAS) Jan Jasovsky focused on the agreement of cooperation signed in Bratislava , Slovakia , in December, 2009.

Under the document, SAS will help the State Audit of Vietnam increase its competence in budget auditing and verifying State budget estimates before submission to the National Assembly for approval.

The scheme also calls for further cooperation in consultancies around information technology, under which the SAS will send experts to Vietnam for exchange of experience.

During the talks, the Vietnamese auditor general also expressed interest in sending his staff to Slovakia to attend workshops and take part in programmes sponsored by SAS.

Further cooperation with SAS within the framework of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) was also high on the duo’s talks, focusing on environmental audit, public debt audit, IT audit, auditing quality supervision and operational auditing./.