Vietnam’s top legislature wraps up session with new personnel appointed, resolutions adopted
HANOI, Jan. 9– The second extraordinary meeting of Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly wrapped up on Monday with the appointment of new personnel and approval of important resolutions. In his closing remark, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said 2023 would serve as a middle year in the 2021-2025 term and hold an important meaning in realizing the 13th Party Congress…
HANOI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — The second extraordinary meeting of Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly (NA) wrapped up on Monday with the appointment of new personnel and approval of important resolutions.
In his closing remark, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said 2023 would serve as a middle year in the 2021-2025 term and hold an important meaning in realizing the 13th Party Congress resolution and the country’s five-year development plan.
He ordered the government, the NA Standing Committee and competent agencies to implement the newly-approved laws and resolutions.
At the session, the parliament approved the appointment of two new deputy prime ministers Tran Hong Ha and Tran Luu Quang to replace Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc Dam who were dismissed on the same day.
Legislators also discussed and voted to approve the resolution on the national master plan until 2030 with a vision to 2050, in which Vietnam sets the target to have annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6.5-7.5 percent between 2031 and 2050, along with per capita GDP of 27,000 to 32,000 U.S. dollars.
The deputies voted to approve the revised law on medical examination and treatment, the resolution on adjusting localities’ reborrowing plans in 2022, supplementing the 2021 regular spending estimates sourced by foreign non-refundable aid, and transferring localities’ anti-pandemic budget in 2021 to the 2022 budget.
The top legislature also voted to adopt the resolution on extending a number of pandemic prevention and control policies, and allowed the continued use of certificates of circulation of medicines and medicinal ingredients which expired on Jan. 1. Enditem
