1,020 Lao people were granted Vietnamese nationality.

On December 6, in Vinh City, Nghe An Province, the Ministry of Justice held a conference to summarize the emulation and commendation work of the Judicial Sector of the North Central provinces. Attending the conference were Mr. Phan Chi Hieu - Deputy Minister of Justice; Nguyen Thi To Nga - Head of the Department of Emulation and Commendation; Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An Province; representatives of relevant ministries, branches, localities and units.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Hoai Thu

In 2019, the Ministry of Justice launched the emulation movement with the theme "Local judicial agencies compete to tighten discipline, strengthen solidarity, action, creativity, breakthrough, and effectively carry out assigned political tasks in 2019", "Cadres, civil servants, and public employees compete to implement office culture" for the period 2019 - 2025 in the Departments of Justice, Civil Judgment Enforcement Departments of the emulation area of ​​judicial agencies in the North Central provinces.

At the conference, 16 units (Department of Justice, Civil Judgment Enforcement Department of provinces and cities) in the Region proposed measures and solutions to promote the patriotic emulation movement in all fields of work and link the emulation movement with promoting the completion of professional tasks of the sector; focusing on the following contents: building, inspecting, reviewing, and systematizing legal documents; managing administrative violations (XLVPHC) and monitoring law enforcement (TDTHPL); providing legal support for businesses; disseminating and educating the law; Judicial administrative work; Legal aid; inspection, examination, settlement of complaints and denunciations; THADS work; receiving people, classifying, processing petitions and settling complaints and denunciations...

The comrades chaired the conference. Photo: Hoai Thu

Regarding the implementation of Directive No. 31/2008/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister on resolving the situation of free migration, illegal border crossing and men and women living together as husband and wife in the Vietnam - Laos border area and implementing the Law on Nationality, in 2019, in the provinces of the North Central region, there were 1,020 Lao people who freely migrated and got married without a marriage certificate and were allowed to reside in Vietnam. Of which, Nghe An had 202 cases, Quang Tri had 735 cases, Ha Tinh had 2 cases, Thua Thien Hue had 9 cases; Thanh Hoa had 52 cases; Quang Nam had 20 cases.

In addition to organizing emulation movements to excellently complete political tasks, agencies and units in the region have launched emulation campaigns to do a good job of gratitude, remembering the source of drinking water; building houses of gratitude; supporting the poor, people affected by floods and natural disasters; helping poor students overcome difficulties and children who are victims of Agent Orange...

Lao women married out of wedlock residing in Keng Du and Dooc May communes happily go through procedures for naturalization and marriage registration. Photo courtesy

The conference also pointed out some shortcomings and limitations in the emulation movement, that is, there is still a lack of uniformity among units in the region. Some units, when launching the emulation movement, have not yet developed specific emulation criteria or are still formalistic, so they lack depth; there are still limitations in the methods of deployment, coordination, and implementation. Funding, facilities, equipment, and means for emulation and reward work have not met the requirements.

At the conference, the tasks and solutions for implementation in 2020 were also discussed and agreed upon by the delegates, focusing on proactively developing a plan to launch the emulation movement; Plan to organize the conference to launch and sign the emulation covenant and plan to inspect the emulation and reward work in 2020 associated with the implementation of targets, tasks, and key tasks of the Department of Justice, the Civil Judgment Enforcement Department of provinces and cities to achieve the highest results.

Continue to promote the implementation of emulation movements in the period 2016 - 2020: "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style", "The Judicial sector joins hands to contribute to building new rural areas" and specialized emulation movements to create motivation for the emulation movement to continuously develop, contributing to the excellent completion of assigned political tasks.

At the conference, 15 groups proposed the Ministry of Justice to consider awarding the Emulation Flag of the Judiciary sector and 3 groups proposed the Government to consider awarding the Emulation Flag of the Government.