NA Standing Committee to finalise preparations for NA’s third session
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will finalise preparations for the 14th-tenure parliament’s upcoming third session during its 10th meeting from May 15-17.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan speaks at the 9th meeting of the NA Standing Committee (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly (NA) StandingCommittee will finalise preparations for the 14th-tenure parliament’s upcomingthird session during its 10th meeting from May 15-17.
During the meeting, the NA Standing Committee isset to give opinions on a report giving additional assessment of theimplementation of the socio-economic development and state budget plan for2016. They will also review the realisation of the socio-economic developmentand state budget plan so far this year.
Other issues on the agenda include a draftdecree of the Government stipulating some special mechanisms and policies forHai Phong city, and a draft resolution on the settlement of bad debt at creditinstitutions and on state budget balance in 2015.
The NA Standing Committee is going to discuss areport on the supervision of the handling of voter’s opinions sent to theparliament’s second session last November.
Members of the committee will look into theNorth-South expressway project and amendments to a draft law revising andsupplementing a number of articles of the 2015 Penal Code.
The NA’s third session is scheduled to begin on May 22. -VNA
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National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan speaks at the 9th meeting of the NA Standing Committee (Photo: VNA) 
