Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Duong Quoc Anh (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) delegation led by Vice Chairman of the NA's Economic Committee Duong Quoc Anh attended a virtualmeeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)’s Standing Committee on SustainableDevelopment on May 18.
Held as part of the ongoing 142nd IPU Assembly, the meetinghighlighted a theme of mainstreaming digitalisation and the circular economy toachieve the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly responsibleconsumption and production.
Speaking at the event, the Vietnamese delegation praised thetheme, which also reflects a resolution of the IPU. With 29 notes and 36 orientations, this is a comprehensive,ambitious, but extremely necessary resolution, especially in the context of thecurrent COVID-19 pandemic.
To realise the document, IPU member parliaments need toraise general public awareness of the resolution with communications activitiesintensified firstly targeting their agencies, then the Government and the people,said the delegation.
According to Vietnam’s speech presented at the meeting, educationplays an important role in equipping people with circular economy knowledge to putit into practice and helps shape responsible consumption habits early on. Atthe same time, the ability to use digital tools and skills, and thereadiness to implement digitalisation must also be considered one of thebasic contents of the educational programmes at all levels.
As the resolution points out, the IPU should strengthencooperation with its member parliaments who are members of otherorganisations, including regional parliamentary ones, to collect evidence andinformation on the circular economy, environment and digitisation in order to build aguiding framework for further parliamentary actions.
The IPU should also actively create an official forum formember parliaments to continue to learn from each other's practices andexperience as well as further increase the support from the parliaments of donorcountries./.
As the resolution points out, the IPU should strengthencooperation with its member parliaments who are members of otherorganisations, including regional parliamentary ones, to collect evidence andinformation on the circular economy, environment and digitisation in order to build aguiding framework for further parliamentary actions.
The IPU should also actively create an official forum formember parliaments to continue to learn from each other's practices andexperience as well as further increase the support from the parliaments of donorcountries./.
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