Standing NA Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong (Photo: VNA)The assessment was made by Standing NA Vice Chairwoman TongThi Phong at a sum-up conference of the NA Committee for External Relations inthe 2016-2021 tenure on March 25 within the framework of the 14th NA’s 11th session.
Phong said that in the context of difficulties caused by theCOVID-19 pandemic, the legislature’s external affairs have been carried out inline with the Party’s guiding viewpoint on foreign policy.
With its coordinating role, the NA Committee for ExternalRelations has promoted activities of the Friendship Parliamentarians’Organisation and the Young National Assembly Deputies’ Group, and closelycoordinated with the Group of Vietnamese Women Parliamentarians in diverseforms and with rich contents.
The committee also recommended the NA to propose theintroduction of a Female Parliamentarians’ Conference into the framework of theAsia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF), and a Youth Parliamentarians’Conference in the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) General Assemblyframework annually.
The legislature’s external affairs have become an importantpart of the Party and State’s external relations, she affirmed.
Speaking at the conference, head of the NA Committee forExternal Relations Nguyen Van Giau reported that over the past years, thecommittee had chaired the assessment of a draft law revising and supplementingseveral articles to the Law on Overseas Representative Missions of theSocialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Law on International Agreements, beforethem were submitted to the NA for approval.
It has also made evaluation of nine important internationaltreaties before submitting them to the NA for ratification, including theComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP),the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, the ILO Convention 98 on the Right toOrganise and Collective Bargaining and the ILO Convention 105 on Abolition ofForced Labour, and four international treaties on border demarcation betweenVietnam and Laos, and between Vietnam and Cambodia./.
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