Nghe An Provincial People's Council and Bolikhamxay Provincial People's Council held a seminar to exchange operational experiences.

The leaders of Nghe An province include members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Chairwoman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, delegate of the 18th Provincial People's Council, delegate of the 15th National Assembly; members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Vi Van Son - Head of the Provincial Ethnic Committee, delegate of the 15th National Assembly.

Also attending were Standing members of the Provincial People's Council, Heads and Deputy Heads of Provincial People's Council Committees, leaders of the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - Provincial People's Council and representatives of the Standing Committees of the People's Councils of Thanh Chuong, Anh Son and Con Cuong districts.

The delegation of Bolikhamxay province was led by comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sana - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Region 11.

Concretize the Memorandum of Cooperation between the two provinces

The seminar was organized to share and exchange experiences in improving the role, quality and effectiveness of the People's Councils and People's Council delegates of the two provinces in the coming time; contributing to strengthening the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos in general, and between the two provinces of Bolikhamxay and Nghe An in particular.

In his welcoming speech, Permanent Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nam Dinh expressed his joy and excitement to welcome comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sa-na - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Region 11 of Bo Ly Kham Xay province and the working delegation to visit and work in Nghe An.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the People's Council of Nghe An province believes that through the discussion as well as the visit and work of the delegation of the People's Council of Bo Ly Kham Xay province in Nghe An, there will be valuable lessons learned to improve, strengthen and further enhance the effectiveness of the People's Councils of the two provinces.

On behalf of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial People's Council, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh sent greetings to comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sa-na and all comrades in the delegation; wishing the friendly, comprehensive and special cooperative relationship between the two provinces, as well as between Vietnam and Laos, to be forever green and sustainable.

Speaking at the seminar, Comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sa-na - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Region 11 of Bo Ly Kham Xay province thanked the Nghe An Provincial People's Council for the warm and thoughtful reception for the delegation; at the same time, emphasized that the seminar was an important meeting to implement the Minutes of the high-level conference between the two provinces.

Comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sana exchanged information on the implementation of socio-economic development and activities of the People's Council of Bo Ly Kham Xay province in the past time; the role, structure, organization, and apparatus of the People's Council of the province; including the function of reviewing and approving important local legal regulations; unifying important local issues; monitoring and inspecting the implementation of the Constitution and laws by local authorities; at the same time, implementing other tasks such as researching and reviewing important issues of the province through 2 regular sessions each year, monthly meetings of the Standing Committee of the People's Council of the province;...

After the results of the first dialogue in 2016, comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sa-na believes that at the second dialogue between the People's Council of Bo Ly Kham Xay and Nghe An, many lessons will continue to be drawn from experience related to the implementation of the roles and tasks of National Assembly deputies and provincial People's Council deputies; and the work of advising on improving the quality of activities of the People's Council of Bo Ly Kham Xay.

Contribute to improving the role and quality of activities of the People's Councils of the two provinces

At the seminar, based on the opinions of the members of the working delegation of the People's Council of Bo Ly Kham Xay province, the Standing Committee, leaders of the Committees, Office of the National Assembly Delegation - People's Council of Nghe An province exchanged and provided specific information on the organization, apparatus, personnel work of the People's Council of the province; experience in implementing resolutions on socio-economic development; receiving, resolving, and responding to petitions and complaints; organizing meetings with voters, receiving, resolving, and responding to voters' recommendations.

The leaders of the Provincial People's Council discussed the authority of the Provincial People's Council to grant licenses and issue incentive mechanisms and policies to attract investment, including attracting foreign direct investment; experience and resources to implement the National Target Program on new rural construction; activities of part-time and full-time Provincial People's Council delegates; propaganda work on the content of Provincial People's Council meetings to voters and people;...

Before concluding, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Council and comrade Su-van-ni Xay-sa-na - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Region 11 of Bo Ly Kham Xay province both highly appreciated the results of the discussion.

Thereby, contributing to enhancing the role and effectiveness of the Provincial People's Council, contributing to socio-economic development, strengthening the friendly and cooperative relationship between the two provinces; fostering the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam - Laos, Laos - Vietnam increasingly stronger.

The leaders of the People's Councils of the two provinces agreed that in the coming time, they will continue to organize cooperation activities and exchange operational experiences between the elected bodies of the two provinces.