Closing of the 9th Extraordinary Session, 15th National Assembly
On the morning of February 19, the 9th extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly held its closing session.
Attending the closing session were comrades: General Secretary To Lam; former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; Luong Cuong - Politburo member, President; Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister; Tran Cam Tu - Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat; Do Van Chien - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.
Comrade Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly chaired; comrades members of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly: Nguyen Khac Dinh, Nguyen Duc Hai, Tran Quang Phuong, Nguyen Thi Thanh, Vu Hong Thanh, Le Minh Hoan co-chaired.
Also attending were Politburo members; Party Central Committee Secretary; Vice President; Party Central Committee members; Deputy Prime Minister; leaders of central departments, ministries and branches;Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee; Heads of delegations and National Assembly deputies of provinces and centrally run cities.
The National Assembly voted to pass 7 draft resolutions in the working session on the morning of February 19, including: Resolution on investment policy for the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway construction investment project; Resolution on piloting a number of specific and special mechanisms and policies to develop the urban railway network system in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; Resolution on specific mechanisms and policies for investment in the construction of the Ninh Thuan nuclear power project; Resolution on regulations on handling a number of issues related to the reorganization of the state apparatus; Resolution on the investment plan to supplement charter capital for the period 2024 - 2026 of the parent company - Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) and a number of urgent mechanisms and solutions necessary to implement the project to renovate, repair, upgrade and build a new office of the President at 2 Le Thach, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi; Resolution on piloting a number of mechanisms and policies to remove obstacles in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation activities; Resolution on supplementing the 2025 socio-economic development plan with a growth target of 8% or more.
The National Assembly also passed the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended) and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended).
In his closing speech, Comrade Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly said that after 6.5 days of serious, democratic, innovative, scientific and highly responsible work, the 9th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly completed the proposed program content.
On the basis of closely following the Party's policies and resolutions, democratically discussing and institutionalizing them into laws, along with the spirit of listening, carefully studying to explain, absorb and edit by the drafting agency and the examining agency, at this Session, the National Assembly considered and passed 4 laws including: Law on Organization of the Government (amended); Law on Organization of Local Government (amended); Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly; Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended); Resolution on handling a number of issues related to the arrangement of the State apparatus and 4 resolutions to implement the arrangement of the apparatus of the National Assembly and the Government for the 15th National Assembly term; passed 6 Resolutions to promote the country's socio-economic development and specific mechanisms and policies for a number of key national projects and works.
The National Assembly Chairman affirmed: “This is an important milestone in the law-making process, of great significance in serving the revolution of arranging and streamlining the political system's apparatus and promptly removing difficulties and obstacles in institutions and policies, creating breakthroughs to perfect infrastructure, promoting resources, and creating new development space for localities and the whole country.”
At the same time, personnel work has been carried out strictly, in accordance with Party regulations and State laws, achieving high consensus and unanimity among National Assembly delegates.
The National Assembly elected two additional comrades to hold the position of Vice Chairmen of the National Assembly for the 15th term; approved the Prime Minister's proposal to appoint two comrades to hold the position of Deputy Prime Ministers for the 2021-2026 term.
The National Assembly also elected six members of the National Assembly Standing Committee; approved the Prime Minister's proposal to appoint four ministers for the 2021-2026 term; and dismissed a number of ministers and members of the National Assembly Standing Committee to take on other duties.
On behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man respectfully thanked the National Assembly deputies for upholding their sense of responsibility, discussing enthusiastically, and deciding on difficult issues with a wide scope of influence; under special conditions, under time pressure but with the requirement of ensuring synchronization, tightness, and immediate implementation in practice, the National Assembly deputies all expressed their support and determination, with many frank and valuable opinions in both theory and practice.
The 9th extraordinary session was a great success. The National Assembly Chairman requested agencies, units and localities to urgently organize and implement with a spirit of initiative, creativity, determination, and drasticness, combining words with actions. He requested the Government to make the greatest effort to develop plans and documents detailing the assigned contents in the laws and resolutions of the National Assembly; agencies urgently review to amend and supplement specific contents in legal documents related to the apparatus arrangement that need to be handled immediately, are of a special nature, and cannot be handled according to general principles for promulgation under authority.
