Important speech of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the first session of the 15th National Assembly

Speaking at the opening session of the first session of the 15th National Assembly, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that over the past 75 years, with 14 terms of operation, our National Assembly has always been close to and accompanied the nation, constantly promoting its role and position as the highest representative body of the people, the highest State power body of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, effectively performing its functions, tasks and powers as prescribed by the Constitution and laws, making great and important contributions to the cause of national liberation, national reunification, and national construction and defense.

Overall, each National Assembly term leaves its own mark and fulfills the responsibilities assigned by the people, properly performing the functions of constitution-making, legislation, supreme supervision and deciding on important issues of the country.

According to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the achievements of our National Assembly over the past 75 years stem from the correct leadership of the Party - the decisive factor for the National Assembly to excellently fulfill the important responsibility entrusted by the people.

The National Assembly of all terms has always grasped the Party's guidelines, viewpoints, policies and guidelines to institutionalize them into laws and properly apply them to the activities of the National Assembly. This is the result of the close connection between the National Assembly and the people, accurately grasping the thoughts and aspirations of the people; listening to and accepting the voters' valid opinions and recommendations and supervising the settlement of voters' recommendations, making the National Assembly truly the highest representative body, representing the will and aspirations of the people.

At the same time, it is also the result of the continuous innovation process in the organization and working methods of the National Assembly, the operational capacity of National Assembly deputies and National Assembly agencies; with the close coordination and shared responsibility of the President, the Government, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and other relevant agencies; and the support, cooperation and assistance of the National Assembly, Government and people of countries around the world.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that the requirements of the cause of innovation, industrialization, modernization, construction and protection of the country in the new period in the spirit of the Political Platform, Socio-Economic Development Strategy, Political Report and other important documents that the 13th National Party Congress has just decided are posing heavy but glorious tasks for our entire Party, people and army.

In addition to the basic advantages brought about by the achievements of the 35-year renovation process, our country is also facing many difficulties and challenges due to unfavorable external impacts and domestic limitations and weaknesses, requiring us to have greater determination, greater efforts, and closer solidarity and unity to strive to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

As the highest representative body of the people and the highest State power body of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said that the National Assembly needs to promote the achievements and experiences of the past 75 years, continue to innovate, and further improve the quality and efficiency of its operations to best meet the country's political requirements and tasks in the new period.

To do so, it is necessary to fully and deeply understand the role, position and responsibility of the National Assembly in our country's political system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam, in order to continue to innovate the content and methods of operation, effectively perform the functions, tasks and powers as prescribed by the Constitution and laws, promptly institutionalize the Party's guidelines and policies, and meet the requirements of practice and the aspirations of the people.

Specifically, the National Assembly needs to continue to promote its role and position more strongly in creating a legal framework for the country's activities, serving the tasks of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security and foreign affairs. Speed ​​up the speed and improve the quality of promulgating legal documents; promptly build a complete and synchronous legal system, ensuring quality, meeting practical requirements. Prioritize the development of new laws and supplementary laws in key areas of key significance, with high feasibility, creating a breakthrough in socio-economic development.

Overview of the first session, 15th National Assembly.

Continue to innovate, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of supervision activities, especially thematic supervision, questioning activities, promote democracy, increase debate, in-depth analysis, clarify achievements, advantages, as well as shortcomings and shortcomings, find out causes, lessons learned and propose appropriate and feasible solutions. Focus on supervising the implementation of conclusions and recommendations after supervision. Improve the quality of decisions on important issues of the country in an increasingly accurate and substantive direction, especially decisions on the State budget, socio-economic issues, State apparatus organization, and important national projects. Promote foreign affairs activities, proactively and actively integrate and cooperate internationally, contributing to implementing the open, multilateral and diversified foreign policy of the Party and State.

In the immediate future, it is necessary to focus on institutionalizing and concretizing the important decisions affirmed at the 13th National Congress of the Party, preparing in all aspects, ensuring that the activities of the 15th National Assembly will have many improvements and achieve increasingly high quality, meeting the requirements and tasks of the revolution, and the aspirations and wishes of the people in the new period. To do so, an extremely important and decisive issue is that all National Assembly deputies of this term need to continue to uphold the spirit of responsibility, wholeheartedly serve the country and the people, serve the Fatherland and the people, regularly cultivate, train, maintain qualities and ethics, improve qualifications in all aspects, be close to and listen to the opinions of the people, and best perform and complete the tasks assigned by voters and the people.

“We believe that, under the correct and experienced leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, firmly following the path chosen by the Party, Uncle Ho and our people; with the great efforts, endeavors and determination of the National Assembly deputies, the National Assembly agencies; the National Assembly delegations; with the close and harmonious coordination of agencies in the entire political system, in the State apparatus, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and people's organizations; the support and supervision of the people; the cooperation and assistance of international friends, our National Assembly in the coming time will certainly promote the results, experiences and glorious traditions of the past 75 years, continue to strongly innovate the organization and methods of operation, achieve many important results, make even greater contributions to the cause of innovation, promote industrialization and modernization, gradually transition the country to socialism, worthy of being the highest representative body of the people, the State power agency. "The highest position of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam", General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong expressed./.