Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh joins final Q&A session

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh will also make clear relevant issues and answer questions raised by deputies in the final question-and-answer session at the ongoing seventh session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on June 6.
Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh joins final Q&A session ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh will also make clearrelevant issues and answer questions raised by deputies in the finalquestion-and-answer session at the ongoing seventh session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on June 6.

Before the Deputy PM’s part, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism NguyenNgoc Thien will answer questions regarding performing arts and cinemamanagement, fight against superstition and tourism development.

Later,NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will deliver a speech closing thequestion-and-answer session.

Inthe afternoon, Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung will present draft amendments tothe Securities Law while Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Economic Affairs VuHong Thanh will deliver a report reviewing the bill.

Thedraft law comprises 10 chapters and 135 articles, detailing criteria forinitial public offering, the rights and responsibilities of the StateSecurities Commission, inspection over securities activities, management onlisted companies, stake ownership of foreign investors in the securitiesmarket, among others.

Thelegislature will listen to the draft revised Law on Militia and Self-DefenceForces delivered by Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich, and a report examining itby Chairman of the NA’s Committee for National Defence and Security Vo TrongViet.

With8 chapters and 50 articles, the draft law needs lawmakers’ feedback on the roleand function of militia and self-defence forces, military commands in communesand villages, among others.

Legislatorswill discuss in groups the two draft laws.-VNA
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