Vietnamese Auditor General and Chair of ASOSAI for 2018 - 2021 Tran Sy Thanh (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) –The Governing Board of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) held its56th meeting in Hanoi on September 6 under the chair of Vietnamese AuditorGeneral and Chair of ASOSAI for 2018 - 2021 Tran Sy Thanh and Chinese AuditorGeneral Hou Kai, Secretary General of ASOSAI.
The meeting focused onimportant issues of ASOSAI, including a report on the organisation’s financialsituation, another on the implementation of the ASOSAI Strategic Plan for 2016 -2021, a draft strategic plan for 2022 - 2027, and reports by working groups,especially the newly established working groups on auditing the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) and crisis management.
In particular, member SAIs wouldgain an insight into achievements by ASOSAI and its members in implementingthe Hanoi Declaration. The Governing Board also selected the host of the 16th ASOSAI Assembly.
Concluding the event, AuditorGeneral Tran Sy Thanh said since the 54th meeting of the Governing Board, theChair, Secretary General, and members of the board have exerted efforts toachieve the targets and carry out the recommendations set out in the HanoiDeclaration on environmental auditing, realise the SDGs, and implement theprogrammes, projects, and activities for the last three years of the ASOSAIStrategic Plan for 2016 - 2021.
The Governing Board approvedthe establishment of the ASOSAI working groups on auditing the SDGs and crisismanagement. It also elected the Supreme Audit Institution of India as Chair of the16th ASOSAI Assembly for the 2024 - 2027 tenure.
The mission, vision, corevalues, strategic targets, and priorities of the organisation stated in theASOSAI Strategic Plan for 2022 - 2027 also received high consensus from theGoverning Board’s members.
Thanh noted the ASOSAI fundfor COVID-19 response, worth 200,000 USD, has been deployed, helping member SAIsto cope with the pandemic.
The outcomes of the Governing Board's 56th meeting proved that ASOSAI is a professional organisation ofcooperation, integration, and reform that is ready to cope with unceasing changesin the region and the world, he added./.
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