1. NA adopts major draft laws, laws
In 2019, the NA adopted a number of draft laws and laws with high consensus among deputies. The ratification of the legal documents is a step forward in addressing arising issues in a timely manner, contributing to developing socio-economy, and improving the quality of the people’s living standards.
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At the eighth session of the 14th National Assembly. (Photo: VNA) |
Additionally, it is expected to demonstrate and protect citizens' fundamental rights, ensure defense-security work and international integration, build harmonious and stable labor relations, boost the restructuring and streamlining of State administrative apparatus, while combating corruption.
2. Quality of supervisory work improved
The NA made efforts to promote the quality of the question-and-answer (Q&A) session. Many legislators, with their high sense of responsibility and enthusiasm, have raised queries to cabinet members and heads of sectors in an exciting, democratic, straightforward, and constructive manner.
According to statistics, 230 deputies joined Q&A sessions during the seventh sitting of the NA while the figure was 250 in the NA’s 8th session.
2019 was also the first year that the NA Standing Committee organized Q&A sessions. 15 ministers and leaders of sectors were summoned for the Q&A sessions.
Besides, this was the first year that videos and photos were added to reports on the operation of the NA supervision team and also for the first time software was used to convert voice into written version at the Q&A sessions.
3. Resolution approving a scheme of socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas ratified.
The NA issued Resolution No.88/2019/QH14 approving the Master Plan for socio-economic development of ethnic minorities and in mountainous areas in the period of 2021-2030. This was the first time the NA has released such the resolution.
4. Promoting the reform of the political system
The NA and its Standing Committee issued important decisions in order to institutionalize the renovation and rearrangement of the apparatus of the political system in accordance with Resolution No.18-NQ/TW of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (12th tenure).
Lawmakers discussed the draft law amending and supplementing some articles of the Law on the Organization of the Government and the Law on the Organization of the Local Governments.
The NA adopted the resolution on a pilot project to build an urban administration model in Hanoi while the NA Standing Committee adopted Resolution No.653/2019/UBTVQH14 on a plan to rearrange administrative units at district and commune levels.
5. Vietnam takes AIPA-41 Chairmanship
On August 29, in Bangkok, Thailand, Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan took over the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) chairmanship for the 2019-2020 period.
It will also be a special year for Vietnam when the country both holds the double position of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Chair of ASEAN and Chair of AIPA-41.
6. Resolution on national border between Vietnam and Cambodia approved
At the eighth sitting, the NA issued Resolution 98/2019/QH14 approving two legal documents on the national border between Vietnam and Cambodia. Subjects to the resolution are the Supplementary Treaty to the Treaty on the Delimitation of the National Boundary 1985 and the Supplementary Treaty between Vietnam and Cambodia 2005, and the Protocol on the Demarcation and Marker Planting of the Land Boundary between Vietnam and Cambodia.
The resolution allows the direct legal enforcement of all stipulations in the two documents, contributing to demonstrating both sides’ determination to build a shared borderline of peace, friendship, security, and development on the basis of equality and respect for territorial integrity, interests, and prosperity of each country and for the sake of their peoples.
7. Celebrations of 130th birth anniversaries of former NA Standing Committee Chairmen
National ceremonies were held to mark the 130th birth anniversaries of the late NA Standing Committee Chairmen Nguyen Van To (June 5) and Bui Bang Doan (September 19).
In her speeches, NA Chairwomen Ngan highlighted their great contributions to Vietnam’s revolutionary cause.
8. IT applications popular
Since the seventh sitting, an application supporting NA deputies’ activities on tablets and smartphones has been used for the first time and artificial intelligence was also used at the NA’s legislative meetings.
Translated by Van Hieu