NA deals with many issues on 15th day of seventh session

The participation in Convention No. 98 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was among the issues discussed by lawmakers on June 7 – the 15th working day of the 14th National Assembly (NA)’s on-going seventh session.
NA deals with many issues on 15th day of seventh session ảnh 1NA deputy Dang Hoai Tan of Binh Dinh province speaks at the plenary debate on June 7 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The participation in Convention No. 98of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was among the issues discussedby lawmakers on June 7 – the 15th working day of the 14th National Assembly(NA)’s on-going seventh session.

In the morning, legislators voted on whetherarchitects’ offices are stipulated in the Law on Architecture. More than halfof the NA deputies present at the plenum, 53.31 percent, voted “yes”.

Up to 299 deputies, or 61.78 percent of theparticipants, agreed to give the Government the jurisdiction to regulateprojects using the backup and remaining capital sources of the medium-termpublic investment plan for the 2016-2020 period.

After that, the parliament scrutinised Vietnam’sparticipation in the ILO’s Convention No. 98.

Most of the deputies agreed on the need to jointhe convention, which NA Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong said is a step torealise the labour-related commitments in the Comprehensive and ProgressiveAgreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and to create favourableconditions for the country’s participation in new-generation multilateral andbilateral free trade agreements.

Later, the Government submitted a report on thesettlement of some issues arising during the state budget governance in 2018and 2019. The NA’s Committee for Financial and Budgetary Affairs delivered areport verifying this document.

In the afternoon, lawmakers looked into thedraft law amending and supplementing some articles of the Law on State Audit,and the amendment of the 13th NA’s Resolution No. 81/2014/QH13, issued inNovember 2014, on the implementation of the Law on the Organisation of the People’sCourts.-VNA
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