Petition settlement main focus of National Assembly on Nov. 14

The settlement of citizens’ complaints and petitions in 2018 is the focus of the morning session of the National Assembly on November 14.
Petition settlement main focus of National Assembly on Nov. 14 ảnh 1Inspector General Le Minh Khai will deliver a Government report on the settlement of citizens’ complaints and petitions in 2018 at the morning session of the National Assembly on November 14 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The settlementof citizens’ complaints and petitions in 2018 is the focus of the morning sessionof the National Assembly on November 14.

The deputies will listen to aGovernment report on the issue presented by Inspector General Le Minh Khai,followed by the NA’s committees’ assessment of the work.

They will then proceed todiscuss the Government report.

In the afternoon, the NA is tovote on a resolution on the allocation of the State budget in 2019.

After the voting, the bill onarchitecture will be tabled for discussion.

Previously, the bill was one of thetopics during group discussion on November 8 morning, during which mostdeputies expressed approval of the draft law submitted by the Government and anevaluation by the NA Committee on Science, Technology and Environment.

At the same time, many deputies saidthe stipulations in the draft are still too general and many overlap.-VNA
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