The 42 nd meeting of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) Executive Board will open in Hanoi on August 4.

This is the first time State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) will organise such a meeting, said General Auditor Vuong Dinh Hue, adding that SAV wishes to run for the chairmanship and host the ASOSAI congress in 2015.

The two-day annual meeting is expected to draw 11 ASOSAI leaders and members from the General Auditing Bureau of Saudi Arabia , the State Audit and Inspection Committee of Mongolia and the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Development Initiative (IDI).

The meeting will review ASOSAI’s activities, work out a future orientation for the organisation and recommend personnel and define topics to be discussed at the INTOSAI congress slated for November in South Africa .

The participants will discuss the cooperation between ASOSAI and the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI).

The ASOSAI environment audit working group will release its report at the meeting./.