A group discussion at the NA's seventh session (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The seventh session of the 14thNational Assembly (NA) opened in Hanoi on May 20.
Opening the event, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan saidthat the session will focus on law building with the adoption of seven laws andtwo resolutions, along with discussion of nine bills.
NA deputies will give opinions on reports on thesocio-economic situation and state budget for 2018 and 2019, while conductingsupreme supervision and question-and-answer sessions, she said.
Following the opening ceremony, the deputies listened to anumber of reports, including those on evaluating the implementation ofsocio-economic development and state budget plans for 2018, as well as thefirst months of 2019; the summary of voters’ opinions sent to the seventhsession; and the outcomes of supervision over the settlement of voters’requests sent to the previous session.
In the afternoon, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran TuanAnh delivered a proposal on the draft law on amendments and supplements to anumber of articles of the Law on Insurance Business and Law on IntellectualProperty.
After that, Chairman of the NA Law Committee Nguyen KhacDinh delivered a verification report on the bill.
Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung read a proposal askingthe NA to approve the state budget balance for 2017, while State AuditorGeneral Ho Duc Phoc delivered an auditing report on state budget balance for2017. Chairman of the NA Finance-Budget Committee Nguyen Duc Hai also delivereda report verifying the state budget balance for 2017.
After the plenary session, the deputies discussed in groupsthe draft law on amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Lawon Insurance Business and the Law on Intellectual Property.
As scheduled, on May 21, the NA will listen to a report onadjustments to the revised Law on Education, while discussing a number of unsettledcontents of the law.
In the afternoon, they will listen to a report on amendmentsto the Law on Architecture and give opinions to some articles of the law.–VNA
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