CLOSING SPEECH OF THE 5TH SESSION BY PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VUONG DINH HUE
Also attending the meeting were Politburo members, former Politburo members, Party Central Committee Secretaries, former Party Central Committee Secretaries, Vice Presidents, Deputy Prime Ministers, former Vice Presidents, former Deputy Prime Ministers, former Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly, former members of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Party Central Committee members, leaders of central departments, ministries, branches, mass organizations and leaders of localities.
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| National Assembly deputies held the closing session of the 5th Session, 15th National Assembly. |
On the National Assembly side, there were National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue; Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man; Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh, Nguyen Duc Hai, Tran Quang Phuong; members of the National Assembly Standing Committee; Heads, Deputy Heads of Delegations, and National Assembly deputies from 63 delegations of National Assembly deputies from provinces and centrally run cities.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue stated that after 23 days of serious, urgent, scientific, democratic and highly responsible work, today, the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly completed the entire proposed program and held the closing session.
On behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, the National Assembly Chairman reported the general results of the session.
Accordingly, regarding legislative work , at this Session, the National Assembly carefully considered and voted to pass 8 laws, including 6 laws that were first commented on at the 4th Session: Law on Consumer Rights Protection; Law on Bidding; Law on Prices; Law on Electronic Transactions; Law on Cooperatives; Law on Civil Defense; at the same time, commented on and passed according to the procedure at one session for 02 laws: Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on People's Public Security; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Exit and Entry of Vietnamese Citizens and Law on Entry, Exit, Transit and Residence of Foreigners in Vietnam.
The National Assembly also passed three legal resolutions, including: Resolution on taking a vote of confidence and voting for people holding positions elected or approved by the National Assembly and People's Councils; Resolution on the 2024 Law and Ordinance Building Program, adjusting the 2023 Law and Ordinance Building Program; Resolution on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City.
The National Assembly listened to the Government report on the results of collecting public opinions on the draft Law on Land (amended) with more than 12 million opinions, giving opinions for the second time, completing a basic step for the draft Law on Land (amended); giving many very important first opinions for 8 other draft laws, including: Law on Credit Institutions (amended); Law on Citizen Identification (amended); Law on Real Estate Business (amended); Law on Housing (amended); Law on Water Resources (amended); Law on Telecommunications (amended); Law on Management and Protection of National Defense Works and Military Zones; Law on Forces Participating in Protecting Security and Order at the Grassroots Level.
The National Assembly Chairman said that so far, the National Assembly, National Assembly agencies, relevant agencies and organizations have completed 112/137 legislative research tasks for the entire term, reaching a rate of 81.8%.
Emphasizing that in the remaining time of the term, the workload is very large, requiring very high quality and progress, the National Assembly Chairman requested the Government, agencies of the National Assembly, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Audit, relevant agencies and organizations to focus on directing the completion of the Law and Ordinance Development Program, the remaining legislative tasks of the term that are included in the plan and research, propose additional necessary legislative tasks to continue to synchronously perfect the development institutions, ensure human rights, citizens' rights, meet the requirements of economic and social recovery and development, ensure national defense, security, international integration, continue to build and perfect the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam. At the same time, tighten discipline, order, strengthen the prevention and fight against corruption and negativity in the work of law making.
Regarding supervision activities , the National Assembly Chairman said that the National Assembly has conducted thematic supreme supervision on "mobilization, management and use of resources for COVID-19 prevention and control, implementation of policies and laws on grassroots health care and preventive medicine".
The National Assembly spent 2.5 days questioning Government members on 4 groups of fields: Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, Ethnicity, Science and Technology, and Transport. The National Assembly passed a Resolution on questioning activities at the Session, specifically defining targets, tasks, solutions, and completion deadlines, as a basis for monitoring implementation, requiring the Government, the Prime Minister, Ministers, and Heads of sectors to seriously implement commitments to the National Assembly and voters nationwide, both promptly and effectively overcoming immediate weaknesses and limitations, and creating substantial, fundamental, and long-term changes in each field being questioned.
At this Session, for the first time, the National Assembly discussed in the Hall the report on the results of monitoring the settlement of voters' petitions sent to the 4th Session and the report summarizing voters' and people's opinions and petitions sent to the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly; reviewed the report on thrift practice and waste prevention in 2022 and a number of other reports as prescribed; passed the Resolution on the National Assembly's Supervisory Program in 2024 and resolutions to establish the National Assembly's Supervisory Delegation for two very important contents: First, the implementation of Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies to support the Socio-economic Recovery and Development Program and the National Assembly's resolutions on a number of important national projects. Second, the implementation of policies and laws on real estate market management and social housing development.
Regarding socio-economics, state budget and decisions on important national issues , the National Assembly Chairman said that the National Assembly spent a lot of time discussing reports and submissions of the Government on additional assessments of the results of the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and state budget in 2022; the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and state budget estimates in 2023.
The National Assembly Chairman stated that, along with efforts to improve the legal system and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of supervision, at this Session, the National Assembly promptly made many very important decisions to promote economic and social recovery and development, and support people and businesses, such as: continuing to reduce the value-added tax rate by 2% until the end of 2023 to stimulate demand and promote the domestic market; Allowing the continued allocation of the remaining capital of the medium-term public investment plan using central budget capital for the 2021-2025 period, the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program and the National Target Program to ministries, central agencies and localities to supplement additional capital for the economy, at the same time, allowing flexible capital adjustment between tasks and projects of the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program with tasks and projects under the Medium-Term Public Investment Plan for the 2021-2025 period to accelerate the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital.
Decide and adjust investment policies for a number of important projects under the authority of the National Assembly, decide to invest additional charter capital for the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; fundamentally amend and supplement procedures and regulations on entry and exit of Vietnamese citizens and foreigners in Vietnam to create more favorable conditions for citizens and stimulate tourism...
The National Assembly requests the Government, relevant agencies, levels and sectors to continue to synchronously, promptly and comprehensively implement policies, tasks and solutions according to the goals set by the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly and the Government.
The National Assembly Chairman emphasized that in order to fundamentally resolve the shortcomings of mechanisms and policies, the National Assembly decided to assign the Government to preside over and coordinate with the National Assembly agencies, relevant agencies, and localities to review the system of legal documents; specifically identify unclear, contradictory, overlapping, loopholes, and inadequacies, and problems in laws, decrees, circulars, and guiding documents, etc., report the review results at the 6th Session (October 2023); promptly direct the amendment and supplementation of sub-law documents that are no longer appropriate, and recommend the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee to amend, supplement, and promulgate new laws and resolutions.
Regarding personnel work , the National Assembly Chairman stated that, with strict procedures and processes, on the basis of Party regulations and State laws, the National Assembly has considered and decided on personnel work for the positions of Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment for the 2021-2026 term, and approved the proposal to appoint 01 judge of the Supreme People's Court.
The National Assembly Chairman also said that in order for the laws and resolutions passed by the National Assembly at the 5th Session to soon come into effect and become effective, the National Assembly Standing Committee will coordinate with the Government, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, and relevant agencies and organizations to organize conferences to disseminate and implement the laws and resolutions passed at this Session in the third quarter of 2023.
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The National Assembly Chairman requested that National Assembly deputies promptly report to voters nationwide on the results of the Session, regularly maintain close contact, listen to and honestly reflect voters' opinions and aspirations, encourage the People to well implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws; actively supervise the organization and implementation of the Constitution and laws, including the laws and resolutions recently passed by the National Assembly.
The National Assembly Chairman affirmed that the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly was a great success, continuing to innovate and create, increasingly better meeting practical requirements.
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