Communiqué No. 5, 7th Session, 15th National Assembly

On Thursday, May 23, 2024, the National Assembly continued the fourth working day of the 7th Session at the National Assembly House, Hanoi.

Scene of the discussion session in the hall on the afternoon of May 23. (Photo: DANG KHOA)

Morning

The National Assembly discussed in groups: (1) Additional assessment of the results of the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and state budget in 2023; the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and state budget in the first months of 2024; (2) Practice of thrift and combat of waste in 2023; (3) Results of implementing national goals on gender equality in 2023.

Afternoon

Under the direction of Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong, the National Assembly discussed in the hall the results of supervising the settlement of voters' petitions sent to the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly.

There were 18 comments from delegates during the discussion session. The delegates basically agreed with the content of the Report on the results of monitoring the settlement and response to voters' petitions sent to the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly by the National Assembly Standing Committee; highly appreciated that in the recent past, the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Petition Committee have paid great attention to urging and supervising the settlement of voters' petitions.

In addition, delegates focused on discussing: difficulties and obstacles in planning minerals, credit, and gold trading; support policies for high school students in ethnic minority areas and areas with special difficulties; policies on forest protection and conservation; housing support policies for people with revolutionary contributions in the 2021-2025 period; solutions to online fraud; promulgation of standards in environmental impact assessment for aquaculture areas; compensation and support in the safety corridor of wind power projects; solutions to overcome shortcomings in advance purchases of equipment, supplies, and medical biological products after the Covid-19 pandemic; policies for poor households; the status of compulsory social insurance collection for individual business owners; shortcomings and limitations in compensation and resettlement of some projects...

Delegates suggested that it is necessary to continue to improve regulations on methods and scope of supervision of the National Assembly and People's Councils in handling voters' petitions; it is necessary to issue specialized resolutions after the National Assembly discusses voters' petitions at the session, resolutions guiding the work of the National Assembly and People's Councils on people's petitions; deploy the construction of an interconnected database system in handling voters' petitions; review voters' petitions that have been raised many times but have not been resolved; ministries and branches need to improve the quality and progress of responding to voters' petitions.

During the National Assembly's discussion, the Ministers of Natural Resources and Environment; Agriculture and Rural Development; Industry and Trade; Education and Training; Health; Information and Communications; Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs; Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam; Head of the Petition Committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee received and clarified a number of issues of concern to National Assembly deputies.

Friday, May 24, 2024, Morning: The National Assembly discussed in the hall a number of contents with different opinions of the draft Law on Archives (amended); Afternoon: The National Assembly discussed in groups: Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Guards; Draft Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Support Tools (amended).

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