December 11, 2017 | 21:23 (GMT+7)
NA Standing Committee’s 19th session opens
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee convened its 19th session in Hanoi on December 11 to review outcomes of the fourth sitting of the 14th NA and discuss preparations for the next meeting.
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NA Chairwoman addressing the session
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NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan
said legislators will also look into a report on results of the supervision of
the issuance of resolutions and operation of centrally-run municipal and
provincial People’s Councils.
The establishment of Ninh Cuong town
in Truc Ninh district, the northern province
of Nam
Dinh will also be deliberated during the session, she added.
The committee will mull over the
adjustment of the investment plan on housing support to people who contributed
to the revolution during 2016-2020, and the plans on Government bond capital
during 2012-2015 and 2014-2016 periods.
It will also discuss the
compensation work of projects to upgrade and expand the National Highway 1- section from the
central province of Thanh Hoa to the Mekong Delta province
of Can Tho, and a section of Ho Chi
Minh road crossing the Central Highlands.
Apart from reviewing external
activities and international cooperation in 2017, the lawmakers are scheduled
to approve the committee’s external affair programme in 2018 and give opinions
on external activities and international cooperation of the Ethnic Council,
committees, friendship parliamentarians’ groups, agencies of the Standing
Committee of the NA, the State Audit Office of Vietnam and the NA Office.
The committee is also expected to
ratify the proposal to appoint Vietnamese ambassadors to a number of countries
for 2017-2020.
Source: VNA