Building on existing national defense - security rules
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Gen. Phan Van Giang, presenting the WMD non-proliferation bill, said the draft aims to swiftly and fully translate the Party and State’s policies and guidelines on safeguarding the Fatherland early and from afar, as well as on deeper international integration, into legislation, including the policy of joining multilateral nonproliferation mechanisms.
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A plenary sitting of the 16th N.A.'s first extraordinary session |
It will complete Vietnam’s domestic legal framework at the statutory level, enabling the country to fully and effectively meet its international commitments and national obligations. It is also designed to create a more welcoming international environment for Vietnamese agencies, organizations and businesses to broaden investment, trade and technology cooperation with partners worldwide, most notably major economies and key markets such as the U.S. and the E.U., he said.
According to him, the bill is built around administrative reform, stronger post-approval inspection mechanisms, and the adoption of digital technologies, connectivity and electronic data sharing. It seeks to embed these requirements into existing sector-specific procedures, databases and management systems as much as possible, while avoiding duplicative licensing, declaration, reporting, inspection or supervision where current legislation already provides adequate regulation and no specific risk indicators exist.
Turning to the bill amending nine military and national defense laws, Gen. Giang said it is expected to quickly and fully translate the Party’s push to reorganize the political system and adopt a two-tier local administration model into legislation.
The amendments also aim to maximize decentralization and delegation of authority while cutting and simplifying administrative procedures to meet pressing practical demands.
Reviewing national risk assessment mechanism
Le Tan Toi, Chairman of the N.A. Committee for National Defense, Security and Foreign Affairs, said the committee broadly backs the scope of amendments and supplements in both bills.
Toi proposed the Government to keep reviewing the issues flagged in the verification reports, revise and finalize the two drafts, ensuring the legislation better captures the drive to renew legal thinking and remains consistent and coherent with the broader legal framework.
He also called for deeper scrutiny of the national risk assessment mechanism and measures to choke off financing for WMD proliferation, balancing defense and security imperatives with the need to facilitate socio-economic development.
Source: VNA