National Assembly Standing Committee opens 21st session

Legislators gave opinions to contents of several draft laws that are of different viewpoints during the 21th session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee that took place in Hanoi on February 7. ​
National Assembly Standing Committee opens 21st session ảnh 1NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan speaks at the 21st session of the NA Standing Committee. (Source: VNA) 

Hanoi (VNA) – Legislators gave opinions to contents of several draft laws thatare of different viewpoints during the 21st session of the NationalAssembly (NA) Standing Committee that took place in Hanoi on February 7.

Working onthe draft Denunciation Law (revised) in the morning, many expressed theirconcern over the proposals for the reception of denunciations via e-mails,faxes and phone calls. 

Vu HongThanh, head of the NA’s Economic Committee, cited a case of people using an unregisteredSIM card to provide information about illegal coal exploitation, in which some informationwas correct and some was aimed at fooling authorized agencies.

Meanwhile,Nguyen Khac Dinh, Chairman of the NA’s Law Committee, explained that the draftlaw prescribes that those lodging denunciations must provide their personnelinformation such as name, age and address for the competent agencies.

Personalinformation of those people should be verified before investigations into thedenounced activities, he said.

Concludingthe debate, Vice NA Chairman Uong Chu Luu underlined tight regulations on thereception and settlement of denunciations through e-mails, faxes and phonecalls.

The draftlaw also stipulates responsibilities of and sanctions on wrong denunciations orthose taking the advantage of denunciation to stir public disorder.

In thatspirit, the NA Standing Committee suggested approval for denunciations to belodged and processed via e-mails, faxes and phone calls and regulations onrelated procedures must be very tight.

Thelaw-makers also looked into the draft law amending and supplementing a numberof articles of the Law on Physical Training and Sports.

They approvedthe establishment of Tien Chau and Nam Viem wards in Phuc Yen town and Phuc Yencity in the northern province of the same name.

Vice NAChairman Luu called for the observance of resolutions of the Communist Party ofVietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s sixth plenum and the collection of publicopinions on the establishment, dissolve, merger, dissolution and adjustment ofadministrative units in line with regulations of the Law on Organisation of Local Administration.-VNA
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