NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (centre) speaks at the opening ceremony of the 38th meeting of the NA Standing Committee on October 14 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly Standing Committeeconvened the 38th meeting on October 14 with several draft laws andimportant reports on its agenda.
In opening the meeting, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said threedraft laws – the revised Law on Enterprises, the revised Investment Law, andthe law on amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Managementand Use of Weapons, Explosives and Supporting Tools – and a draft resolution onpiloting the removal of ward-level People’s Councils in Hanoi’s urban districtsand towns will be tabled for discussion at this meeting.
The NA Standing Committee is scheduled to give opinions on reports onsocio-economic and State budget performance, the feasibility research report ofthe Long Thanh airport (first phase), a draft resolution approving the SupplementaryTreaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of the National Boundary and the2005 Supplementary Treaty between Vietnam and Cambodia, and the Protocol on theDemarcation and Marker Planting of the Land Boundary between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Reports on voters’ petitions and the settlement of complaints anddenunciation in 2019, and on preparations for the 8th session of theNA will be considered.
The NA Standing Committee will consider and make decision on theappointment of ambassadors to other countries, the adjustment of administrativeboundaries in three provinces of Hai Duong, Thanh Hoa and Bac Ninh, and severalother important issues at the meeting, which will last until October 17.
Following the opening, the NA heard and discussed a report of the Presidiumof the Vietnam Fatherland Front’s Central Committee on petitions of voters andthe public.
Based on the petitions, the Presidium of the VFF’s Central Committeepresented five proposals, asking the NA, the Government and localities to givepriority to investment in infrastructure and socio-economic development inremote and isolated areas, ethnic minority areas and areas frequently hit bynatural disasters and climate change.
The VFF urged ministers, sectors and local administrations to strictly implementthe Government’s instruction in disbursing public investment capital,accelerating the pace of public projects, ensuring their efficiency andpreventing wastefulness.
The VFF called on the Government, the Ministry of Public Security, otherministries, sectors and local administrations to pay special attention toensuring political security and social order and safety and cracking down on crimesof all kinds. Local administrations should assume greater responsibility in themanagement of foreigners who illegally enter and reside in the country orengage in the trading of land and houses in sensitive areas and strictly punishviolations of Vietnamese law.
The VFF asked the Government to instruct relevant ministries andlocalities, first of all Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, to urgently take measuresto reduce air pollution and protect the environment, design concrete plans androadmaps to resolutely relocate production units with high risks of causing fires,explosions and pollution from the inner city, and create land fund to buildpublic facilities serving the people, ease traffic and protect the environment.
The Party and State are asked to continue leading the review andperfection of institutions for the management and supervision of officials andParty members, create favourable conditions for the public, the VFF and itsmember organisations to monitor personnel work, and push ahead with drasticefforts in preventing and fighting corruption and wastefulness.
The same day, the NA Standing Committee also listened to a report on thesupervision of the settlement of voters’ petition, which showed that 98.97percent of petitions submitted to the NA’s 7th session, or 2,201petitions, had been handled./.
