NA Standing Committee, Front Presidium review coordination

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee and the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee held an annual joint conference on April 20 to review their coordination in 2021 and identify focuses for this year.
NA Standing Committee, Front Presidium review coordination ảnh 1President of the VFF Central Committee Do Van Chien (standing) speaks at the meeting on April 20. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The NationalAssembly (NA) Standing Committee and the Presidium of the Vietnam FatherlandFront (VFF) Central Committee held an annual joint conference on April 20 toreview their coordination in 2021 and identify focuses for this year.

Officials at the Hanoi event shared the view that the two sides have made many reforms and strides inbilateral coordination to help fruitfully perform each body’s tasks, thuswinning high evaluation from the public.

Asking for more cooperation progressand being closer to the people, they proposed more attention be paid to issuingand supervising the enforcement of policies on ethnic minorities, mountainousareas, and overseas Vietnamese.

President of the VFF CentralCommittee Do Van Chien highlighted that bilateral coordination has beenincreasingly strong and effective, especially in the successful organisation ofthe election of deputies to the 15th NA and all-level People’sCouncils for 2021 - 2026, COVID-19  fight, and promulgation of economicrecovery and development policies.

The Presidium perceived thatsince the start of the 15th tenure, the NA and its StandingCommittee have considerably reformed the building of laws, supervision, the organisationof sessions, and the making of decisions about major issues, thereby bettermeeting the people’s aspirations and expectations, he noted.

Chien called on the NA StandingCommittee, as well as the chair and vice chairs of the parliament, to support thedrafting of a law on the supervision and social feedback by the VFF andsocio-economic organisations.

NA Standing Committee, Front Presidium review coordination ảnh 2NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue addresses the event on April 20. (Photo: VNA)
Addressing the conference, NAChairman Vuong Dinh Hue said the VFF and its member organisations have been affirmingtheir crucial role as representative offices of the people and an important component ofthe political system.

The top legislator held thatthe ties between the Presidium of the VFF Central Committee and the NA StandingCommittee have continually been reinforced. Amid major difficulties last year,their coordination became even stronger, greatly helping to bring into play thestrength of the great national solidarity so as to surmount challenges and deal with unprecedented problems.

He requested even strongerand more effective cooperation between the two sides in 2022, a year importantto socio-economic recovery and development and the implementation of the 13th National Party Congress’s resolution in order to create a stepping stone forachieving targets of the 2021 - 2025 socio-economic development plan./.
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