NA Standing Committee kicks off 9th sitting

The 15th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is set to deal with a heavy workload during its 9th sitting that opened in Hanoi on March 10 morning.
NA Standing Committee kicks off 9th sitting ảnh 1NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (standing) addresses the 9th sitting of the NA Standing Committee on March 10. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 15th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is set to deal with a heavy workloadduring its 9th sitting that opened in Hanoi on March 10 morning.

Highlighting the lawmaking issues to behandled, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said the committee will opine on five draft laws and a draft resolution to be submitted to the comingthird sitting of the parliament.

It will also vote on one draft ordinance and one draft resolution whileconsidering the Government’s proposal to add a bill amending and supplementing somearticles of the Law on People’s Public Security to the 2022 law and ordinance makingprogramme.

Besides, the committee willhold a question-and-answer session during this sitting and look into the specialisedsupervisory teams’ reports on the implementation of legal regulationson rearranging district- and communal-level administrative units, settlement ofcomplaints and denunciations, along with thrift practice and wastefulnessprevention, according to the top legislator.

The NA Office said the ongoing sitting of the Standing Committee consists of two phases, with the first fromMarch 10 to 16 and the second from March 22 to 25./.
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