Minister of Justice pays working visit to US

Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong has paid a week-long working visit to the United States to learn about the US experience in codification, consolidation and legal reform.

During his stay in the US from May 8-15, Minister Cuong and his delegation had working sessions with relevant US agencies, including the House’s and the Senate’s Judiciary Committees, the Department of Justice, the Supreme Court, the State Department, the Department of the Interior, the National Archives, the Office of the Federal Register and the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives.

The delegation also worked with California’s Office of Administrative Law and law firm Backer & McKenzie.

At the working sessions, the delegation was presented with the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) history and CFR’s institutional arrangements, the concept of positive law codification, the structure and objectives of codification bills and other codification issues.

The two sides discussed handling of codification bills and parliamentary procedures for their passage and other lawmaking procedures, current legal-judicial reforms in the US and Vietnam.

Minister Cuong also discussed with leaders of the Department of Justice and the State Department on other legal issues of mutual concern./.

Youths' efforts yield socio-economic fruits

Many activities were carried out across the nation during the Vietnam’s Youth Month, an annual festivity taking place in March to celebrate the establishment of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU), contributing to the nation’s socio-economic development, heard a conference held by the union's Central Committee in Hanoi on April 23.