Full text of the closing speech of the 3rd Session of the National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue

Dear Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam;

Dear leaders and former leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front;

Dear Congress;

Dear guests;

Dear compatriots and voters nationwide.

After 19 days of working enthusiastically, urgently, scientifically, democratically and with high responsibility, today, the 3rd Session of the 15th National Assembly has completed all the contents of the proposed program and achieved great success. The 3rd Session is the regular session in early 2022, the pivotal year for implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the first year of implementing the Program for socio-economic recovery and development of the country. The National Assembly reviewed a large amount of work, with high consensus and unity, deciding on many important contents not only for 2022, but also for the period 2021-2025 and the following years.

At this meeting there were1,484National Assembly delegates speaking at 6 group discussion sessions,592 discussion and62debates at 23 plenary sessions in the Hall, of which 133 were at the question and answer session.tDelegates exercised their right to question, 28 delegates debated to clarify issues of concern. The National Assembly considered and voted to pass 05 Laws, 16 thematic resolutions and the General Resolution of the session, gave opinions on 06 draft laws and resolved many other important contents. On behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, I would like to report the general results of the session as follows:

Panorama of the closing session.

First, on socio-economics and state budget

The National Assembly spent a lot of time discussing and assessing the results of the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and the State budget in 2021; the implementation situation and results of socio-economic development, finance and the State budget in the first months of 2022. In the first 5 months of 2022, due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and new difficulties arising from geopolitical tensions, the world economy faced high inflation and a marked slowdown in recovery, many countries tightened monetary policy.(The US Federal Reserve FED has just raised interest rates to the highest level in the past 30 years); International organizations have lowered their forecasts for global growth in 2022. Domestically, the COVID-19 pandemic situation has basically improved positively, financial and monetary support policies under Resolution 43/2021/QH15 of the National Assembly have been gradually concretized and implemented, creating a fundamental premise for socio-economic recovery and development. GDP in the first quarter reached 5.03% and continued to grow well in the second quarter; retail activities flourished, recovering almost to pre-COVID-19 levels; total import and export turnover in the first 5 months reached more than 305 billion USD, up 16.1% over the same period in 2021, with a trade surplus; State budget revenue has reached more than 57% of the annual estimate, up 18.7%. Business activities continue to recover, with many improvements. The macro economy is stable, major balances are ensured; Interest rates and exchange rates increased, but were still within forecast and control.

Life, employment, social security and welfare, national defense, security, social order and safety are ensured, foreign affairs and international integration are expanded and strengthened. The fight against corruption and negativity has been stepped up; violations in the stock market, corporate bonds, and real estate market have been identified, strictly handled, and actively controlled and sanitized. Vietnam was elected Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 2022-2023 term, representing the Asia-Pacific region; the 31st SEA Games were held very successfully, contributing to enhancing the image and position of the country. The above results have been recognized and highly appreciated by the people of the whole country, our compatriots abroad, and international organizations.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue delivered a closing speech at the 3rd session of the 15th National Assembly.

The National Assembly also frankly pointed out the limitations and weaknesses in sectors and fields, analyzed objective and subjective causes, drew lessons, forecasted advantages, risks and challenges, especially new impacts and difficulties arising due to complicated developments in the world geopolitical situation, increasing inflationary pressure, high prices of gasoline, raw materials and transportation costs, instability of the financial market, securities, bonds, real estate, etc. The National Assembly resolved many major orientations, key tasks and solutions for the Government, all levels and sectors to continue to resolutely implement in order to complete the goals, targets, tasks and solutions set out in the Conclusions of the Party Central Committee, the Resolutions of the National Assembly and the Government on socio-economic development, prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, on the 5-year planning frameworks (2021-2025), especially urgently implementing synchronously and promoting speed up the disbursement of public investment capital and implement a package of fiscal and monetary policies to support the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program..., to unleash resources, unleash all potentials, create motivation to overcome difficulties and challenges, and quickly recover and develop the socio-economy.

The National Assembly passed a Resolution on approving the 2020 State budget settlement and requested the Government to strengthen direction and take measures to further tighten financial discipline and order, overcome shortcomings, limitations and weaknesses, promote thrift practice in combating waste, preventing and combating corruption and negativity, and strictly handle violations in the preparation, implementation, accounting and settlement of the State budget, in the management and use of the State budget and public assets.

Second, on legislative work

The National Assembly passed 05 laws and 03 resolutions, contributing to the timely institutionalization of the Party's policies and guidelines, continuing to concretize the 2013 Constitution, ensuring the implementation of international commitments to perfect the legal system on intellectual property, develop the insurance market, build a professional, modern Vietnamese cinema industry imbued with national identity, build a regular, elite, modern Mobile Police force, create new motivation in emulation and reward work, improve the effectiveness of prisoner education and rehabilitation, develop Khanh Hoa province quickly and sustainably, and be a model of the connection between socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security. The passing of laws and resolutions with high unity and concentration is the result of careful, early and remote preparation by the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Government, the National Assembly agencies and relevant agencies, with the promotion of democracy, making the most of the wisdom and contributions of the people, the domestic and foreign business community, revolutionary veterans, experts and scientists. This is a valuable lesson for continuing to innovate and improve the quality and effectiveness of legislative work as well as other decisions of the National Assembly.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

The National Assembly also gave opinions on 06 draft laws, including: Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence (amended); Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended); Law on Implementation of Democracy at Grassroots Level; Law on Inspection (amended); Law on Amendments and Supplements to a Number of Articles of the Law on Radio Frequencies; Law on Petroleum (amended); focusing on principles, objectives, major viewpoints, important policies; thoroughly analyzing the impacts of policies and specific contents of articles and clauses in each draft law. It is requested that the agency in charge of the review coordinate with the agency drafting and submitting the project and relevant agencies and organizations to carefully study the opinions of National Assembly deputies to absorb, revise the draft and develop an explanatory report, ensuring the highest quality of the draft law to be submitted to the National Assembly at the next session.

Third, on supreme supervision activities

The National Assembly devoted appropriate time to listening to and discussing reports on thrift practice and waste prevention in 2021, the report of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front synthesizing opinions and recommendations of voters and people sent to the 3rd session; and reviewing reports on the results of monitoring the settlement of voters' recommendations sent to the 2nd session of the 15th National Assembly. The National Assembly deputies highly appreciated the reports that closely followed real life, basically honestly reflecting the thoughts, feelings and aspirations of the people and voters nationwide, at the same time, contributing many enthusiastic and practical opinions for the Government, ministries, branches, localities, and relevant agencies and organizations to focus on solving to create fundamental changes in the practice of thrift and anti-waste commensurate with the results achieved in the fight against corruption and negativity, and promptly resolving the recommendations of the people and voters on the "hot" socio-economic issues that are emerging today.

The National Assembly delegates gathered to vote with high approval.

The National Assembly has supreme supervision“implementation of policies and laws on planning work since the Law on Planning came into effect”and issue Resolution"On continuing to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of implementing policies and laws on planning and some solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles, speeding up the progress of planning for the 2021-2030 period"; in which, allowing the adjustment of some current inappropriate regulations, removing immediate shortcomings and inadequacies to speed up the progress and quality of planning work; at the same time, assigning the Government to comprehensively assess the implementation of the Law on Planning to promptly propose, amend and supplement the Law on Planning and laws related to planning at an appropriate time.

After 2 and a half days of questioning 3 Ministers and the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam and Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh with the participation of Deputy Prime Ministers and Heads of sectors in the fields of agriculture and rural development; finance; banking; transportation; it has shown that the issues selected by the National Assembly as the content of questioning are "correct and accurate", both topical and urgent in the short term and strategic in the long term. The questioning and answering session took place in a lively, democratic, responsible manner with a constructive spirit. The National Assembly unanimously passed the Resolution on questioning and answering questions, requiring the Government, the Prime Minister, Ministers and Heads of sectors to resolutely implement specific commitments, both in terms of what must be done and the deadline for completion, to create real changes in each questioned field, meeting the legitimate requirements and aspirations of the people and voters nationwide. This is also the basis for the National Assembly to monitor and consider taking a vote of confidence at the mid-term session at the end of the year.

The National Assembly discussed and passed the Resolution on the National Assembly's Supervision Program in 2023 and the Resolution on establishing a Thematic Supervision Delegation.“Mobilization, management and use of resources for COVID-19 prevention and control; implementation of policies and laws on grassroots health and preventive medicine”and“Implementation of the National Assembly's resolutions on the National Target Programs on new rural construction for the 2021-2025 period, sustainable poverty reduction for the 2021-2025 period, and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2021-2030 period”These are the National Assembly's top supervisory topics in 2023. The National Assembly also assigned the National Assembly Standing Committee and National Assembly agencies to closely coordinate with relevant agencies to continue to innovate and further improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the National Assembly's supervisory activities in the coming time.

Fourth, on personnel work, review and decide on important national issues.

For the first time, at a National Assembly session, 5 important national projects were considered for investment decisions, bringing the total number of projects that the 15th National Assembly considered and decided on investment policies in the first year of its term to 6 projects with a total investment of 10.5 billion VND.392,644 billion VND. These are all key and urgent transport projects, ensuring national defense and security, having a spillover effect, strengthening regional connectivity, promoting socio-economic development of the country, regions and localities. The National Assembly has passed Resolutions on Investment Policy for the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 Project; Ring Road 4 Project - Hanoi Capital Region; Expressway construction projects: Bien Hoa - Vung Tau (phase 1), Khanh Hoa - Buon Ma Thuot (phase 1), Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang (phase 1). The National Assembly has agreed to apply the PPP investment method for the Ring Road 4 project - Hanoi Capital Region and the public investment method for the remaining 4 projects, using a combination of the central and local budgets, both the medium-term public investment capital for the 2021-2025 period and public investment capital in the Socio-economic Recovery and Development Program. Along with allowing the application of many unprecedented special mechanisms and policies, the National Assembly assigned the Government and the Prime Minister to resolutely organize the implementation, ensure the progress and quality of the project, be open and transparent, and absolutely not allow corruption, negativity, policy profiteering, waste, and loss of State money and assets. At the same time, it is recommended that the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Nationalities Council, the National Assembly Committees, the National Assembly deputies, the People's Councils at all levels, the People and voters strengthen inspection and supervision of the implementation of these important Resolutions of the National Assembly.

At this session, based on the proposal of the National Assembly Standing Committee, the National Assembly agreed to add unusual content on personnel work to the session agenda and carried out procedures according to the provisions of the Constitution and the law, issued a resolution to dismiss the National Assembly deputy; approved the Prime Minister's proposal to remove Mr. Nguyen Thanh Long from the position of Minister of Health for serious violations in the Viet A Company case.

Thursday,The National Assembly passed the Resolution of the 3rd session, 15th National Assembly.with many important contents, including: (i) Extending the application period of Resolution No. 42/2017/QH14 dated June 21, 2017 of the National Assembly on piloting the handling of bad debts of credit institutions; (ii) Adjusting a number of contents and solutions to continue effectively implementing the investment policy for the construction of the Ho Chi Minh Road project; (iii) The policy of converting loans for re-lending and Government guarantees into State budget allocation for a number of key transport projects before the Law on Public Debt Management 2017 takes effect.

In order for the laws and resolutions of the 3rd session of the 15th National Assembly to soon come into effect, immediately after the session, the National Assembly requests the Government, the Prime Minister, the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Nationalities Council, the National Assembly Committees, all levels, sectors, agencies in the State apparatus, the National Assembly delegations, and the National Assembly deputies to urgently organize and effectively implement the laws and resolutions that have just been passed, to overcome the situation."correct - accurate - timely decision, but slow implementation - ineffective". National Assembly deputies promptly reported to voters nationwide the results of the session, regularly maintained close contact, listened to and honestly reflected voters' opinions and aspirations, actively supervised the settlement of citizens' petitions, complaints and denunciations, encouraged people to well implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, continued to join hands and hearts with the Party, the National Assembly, the Government, all levels and sectors to strive to overcome all difficulties and challenges, quickly restore and develop the economy, ensure good social welfare and social security after the pandemic.

The 3rd session of the 15th National Assembly was a great success. The National Assembly acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts, determination and close coordination of the agencies of the National Assembly, the Government, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and relevant agencies and organizations in carefully preparing the contents of the session; sincerely thanked the central and local news agencies and press, reporters for promptly, promptly, fully and objectively reporting the developments and results of the session to compatriots, voters nationwide and international friends; thanked and commended the central ministries, departments and branches and Hanoi City for closely coordinating with the National Assembly Office and agencies of the National Assembly to organize thoughtful services and ensure absolute safety for the session.

Dear Congress,

Through each session, with the spirit of continuous innovation and self-improvement, the National Assembly has learned valuable lessons to better meet the requirements of practice and the expectations of voters and the People. The National Assembly has flexibly adjusted and supplemented the content of the session agenda, but still ensured the quality and ended the session as scheduled; decided to increase the live broadcast time on Vietnam National Assembly Television for many discussion sessions in the Hall so that the activities of the National Assembly are increasingly more public, transparent, and closer to voters and the People, thereby also creating favorable conditions for the People and voters to supervise the activities of the National Assembly. The close relationship, coordination, and sharing of operational experiences with local elected bodies have also been focused on and strengthened through inviting representatives of the Standing Committee of the People's Councils of provinces and cities to attend the National Assembly's supreme supervision sessions.

We believe that, with the results of the 3rd session and the newly issued laws, resolutions and policies, under the leadership of the Party, the drastic management of the Government and the supervision of the National Assembly, the participation of all levels, sectors and the entire political system, the support and consensus of the people and the business community, we will certainly successfully carry out the socio-economic development tasks in 2022 and the entire period of 2021-2025, bringing the country to continue to develop rapidly and sustainably, people's lives will be improved, and people's trust will be further consolidated. In that spirit, I hereby declare the closing of the 3rd session of the 15th National Assembly.

I wish Comrade General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, leaders and former leaders of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Front, revolutionary veterans, distinguished guests in the Diplomatic Corps and international organizations, National Assembly deputies and all compatriots, cadres, soldiers, voters nationwide, and our compatriots abroad good health, happiness and success!

Thank you very much Congress!