The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee wrapped up its 45th session on February 25, during which the committee agreed that the 11th meeting of the 13th NA will open on March 21.
The government and Prime Minister’s working report for the 2011-2016 tenure received strong approval from the National Assembly’s Standing Committee during its ongoing 45 th session in Hanoi on Feb.24
The content and agenda of the 11th meeting of the 13th National Assembly, to be held in late March, were among the talking points of the NA Standing Committee’s 45th session on the morning of Feb 24.
National Assembly deputies looked into regulations on bailiff and the draft Law on Custody and Detention during a plenary session in Hanoi on November 9.
Lawmakers on the last day of the 42nd National Assembly Standing Committee agreed that unlawful residency registration and marriage registration would no longer be punishable under penal code.
The draft revised Law on Government Organisation came under scrutiny at a
plenary National Assembly (NA) session in Hanoi on June 1 under the
chair of NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu.
National Assembly (NA) deputies debated the draft Law on Sea and Island
Natural Resources and Environment during the ongoing ninth session of
the 13th NA in Hanoi on May 28.
National Assembly (NA) members on April 10 agreed that wrongful verdicts
still occurred despite efforts by all Government agencies and bodies to
ensure that criminal proceedings were transparent.
The Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) adopted the resolution on international
law as it relates to national sovereignty, non-intervention in the
internal affairs of States and human rights.
Lawmakers underlined the need to ensure human rights for those under
temporary detention or arrest at a debate on the draft law on temporary
detention and arrest on February 27, the last working day of the 35 th
session of the National Assembly Standing Committee.
Policy and legal experts are gathering at a two-day conference in the
central city of Da Nang to discuss the contributions of social
organisations to the law-building process in Vietnam .
Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee have urged for
better quality draft laws to match the revised Constitution before they
are presented to the National Assembly (NA).
Vietnam’s viewpoint on the recognition, respect, protection and
guarantee of human rights as well as the fundamental rights and
obligations of citizens has been firmly clarified in the amended
Constitution, which was passed by almost all of legislators in November
last year and was enforced on the first day of 2014.
Amendments to VN’s 1992 Constitution, which have been approved by
97.59 percent of the NA deputies, introduce a number of
new legal regulations, NA Law Committee Vice Chairman Le Minh Thong has
said.
The 6th session of the 13th National Assembly on November 16 elected
additional members to join the NA Standing Committee and also voted
people to fill the roles of Vice Chairman of the NA Council of Ethnic
Affairs and Vice Head of several other committees.
National Assembly policymakers agreed that the Government should
temporarily stop establishment of the nation’s economic zones and border
economic zones in Vietnam due to poor results.