General Secretary and President To Lam: The National Assembly needs to be highly unified, take the lead as an exemplary model, and make positive and important contributions to institutional building and national development.

On the morning of October 21, the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly solemnly opened at the National Assembly House, Hanoi.

Attending the opening session of the Meeting, on behalf of the Party and State leaders and guests, there were Comrade To Lam - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Comrades: Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister; Luong Cuong - Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat;...

Attending the opening session were former leaders of the Party and State; members of the Politburo, members of the Secretariat, members of the Party Central Committee; central departments, ministries, branches, and organizations; local leaders; ambassadors, chargé d'affaires, and heads of international organizations in Hanoi.

Speaking at the opening of the session, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized,8th SessionThe 15th National Assembly took place after the very successful 10th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee.

This session is of great significance. The National Assembly will discuss and decide on many issues to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles in institutions and policies, unblock resources, and overcome bottlenecks, all for the socio-economic development of the country and to ensure the people's lives.

Emphasizing that the workload of the 8th Session is very large, on behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man asked National Assembly deputies to continue promoting democracy, further upholding the sense of responsibility, thoroughly researching, discussing enthusiastically in a constructive spirit, contributing many quality opinions, meeting the expectations of voters and people nationwide.

Speaking at the opening session, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly is the session with the largest workload since the beginning of the term and is also the first session responsible for institutionalizing the resolution of the 10th Central Committee, 13th tenure, urgently bringing the Party's policies into practice and solving many other important issues of the country.

General Secretary and President To Lam said that the 10th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee had recently been a great success. The Politburo and the Secretariat also organized a national conference at the grassroots level to disseminate and implement the Resolution of the 10th Central Conference. With a spirit of innovation, solidarity and unity, the 10th Central Conference discussed and decided on many important contents, unifying perceptions and actions to focus on leadership, direction, acceleration, breakthroughs, and completion of the goals and tasks of the 13th Congress term, and preparation for the 14th Party Congress.

General Secretary and President To Lam highly appreciated that the activities of the National Assembly have undergone many substantial and more effective innovations in recent times. The National Assembly has increasingly promoted its role as the highest representative body of the people, the highest State power body, with three important functions.

To meet the country's development requirements in the new era, General Secretary and President To Lam proposed that the National Assembly continue to strongly innovate its organization and operations in the spirit of Resolution No. 27 dated November 9, 2022 of the 6th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee on continuing to build and perfect the socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam in the new period.

In particular, the focus is on emphasizing 3 issues: Strongly innovating legislative work; better performing the supreme supervisory function and deciding on important issues of the country; strongly innovating the organization and activities of the National Assembly to ensure effective and efficient operations, improving the quality and effectiveness of performing the duties and powers of National Assembly deputies.

Comrade To Lam emphasized: The National Assembly and National Assembly deputies need to be highly unified, exemplary, and make positive and important contributions to institutional building and national development, with a spirit of innovation and reform, wholeheartedly serving the Fatherland and the People...

Emphasizing that the world is in a period of epochal change, the country is also standing at the historic door to enter a new era - the era of national growth; the country's burning reality is posing urgent issues that need to be resolved, the people are waiting and expecting the decisions of the Party, the State, the National Assembly, the General Secretary and President requested the National Assembly, the National Assembly agencies, and the National Assembly deputies to promote the spirit of solidarity, responsibility, innovation, breakthrough, and excellently fulfill their responsibilities, contributing to the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army to unite and strive to soon successfully build a socialist Vietnam, on par with the great powers of the five continents as the wish of the great President Ho Chi Minh and the aspiration of the entire nation.