Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the event (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged theNational Assembly to further uphold its role and position in creating a legalframework for the country’s activities.
Inhis keynote speech at the opening of the 15th NA’s first session inHanoi on July 20, Trong asked the legislature to speed up the issuance andimprove the quality of legal documents, soon build a legal system to meetdemand in reality, and build and supplement laws in key areas that make breakthroughs insocio-economic development.
TheNA needs to continue renewing and further improving operation quality and efficiency to meetthe country’s requirements and political tasks in the new period, he said, adding that to such end, it isnecessary to fully understand the role, position and responsibility of thelegislature in the nation’s political system led by the Communist Party ofVietnam (CPV), as well as promptly institutionalise the Party’s policies and guidelines to meet demand in reality and public expectations.
Thelegislature also needs to step up external activities, active and proactiveglobal integration, contributing to performing the Party and State’s foreign policy of multilateralisation and diversification of relations.
TheParty chief stressed that achievements made by the NA over the past 75years are the result of the sound leadership of the CPV - a decisive factorfor the legislature to fulfill tasks entrusted by the people.
Delegates at the event (Photo: VNA)
Inthe immediate future, he called for institutionalising and concretising importantpolicies affirmed at the 13th National Party Congress, ensuring the qualityof the 15th NA’s activities to meet the requirements and tasks of the revolution and the people's expectations in the newperiod.
Heexpressed his belief that under the CPV’s leadership and with efforts anddetermination of NA deputies, close collaboration among units in the politicalsystem, support and supervision of the public, and cooperation and assistance of internationalfriends, the Vietnamese legislature will reap important outcomes, thus deserving the highestrepresentative organ of the people and thehighest organ of State power of the country./.
