The draft revised Law on Environmental Protection will be tabled for discussion on May 26 as part of the ninth session of the 14th National Assembly.

The 14th National Assembly’s ninth session continued the fifth online working day in Hanoi on May 25 under the chair of NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

National Assembly deputies discussed the development of agricultural production on May 25 with a focus on the draft resolution on agricultural land use tax exemptions.

The Central Military Commission held a conference in Hanoi on May 25 to collect feedback on draft documents to be submitted to the 11th Party Congress of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).

Legislators will deliberate the draft Law on Mediation and Dialogue at Court on May 25 morning as part of the ninth session of the 14th National Assembly.

Law building will be high on the agenda during the second online working week of the 14th National Assembly’s ninth session from May 25-28.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc suggested the northeastern province of Quang Ninh devise a strategy to develop tourism as its spearhead economic sector, especially in the remaining months of this year and during the new tenure of the provincial Party Organisation.

Legislators continued their online meeting on May 23 as part of the ninth session of the 14th National Assembly.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc has held phone talks with US Congressman Ami Bera, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation, on the comprehensive partnership between the two countries and bilateral cooperation in the fight against COVID-19.

The ninth session of the 14th National Assembly on May 23 morning will have an online discussion on the pilot of the urban administration model in central Da Nang city.

The ninth session of the 14th National Assembly continued its third online working day in Hanoi on May 22 under the chair of NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on May 22 held phone talks with his Irish counterpart Simon Coveney to discuss measures to enhance bilateral cooperation as well as coordination between the two nations at multilateral forums.

Authorities from Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai and Honghe county in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan held an video conference on May 22 regarding the COVID-19 situation in their localities and discussed increasing trade activities in the future.

The law and ordinance building programme for 2021 and revisions to this year’s law and ordinance building programme were debated on the morning of May 22 as part of the ongoing ninth session of the 14th National Assembly (NA).

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, on May 21 chaired the first online informal meeting between ambassadors of the 10 non-permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council (E10) and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Vietnam called on all involved parties in Somalia to promote dialogues and create conditions for people and political parties to participate in direct one-person one-vote elections, a Vietnamese diplomat told a UN Security Council teleconference on May 21.

The law and ordinance making programmes for 2020 and 2021 will be under discussion on May 22, forming part of the third day of the 14th National Assembly (NA)’s ninth session.

Legislators met online on May 21 – the second working day of the ninth session of the 14th National Assembly.

The National Assembly (NA) mulled over a draft revised law on Vietnamese guest workers with contracts in Hanoi on May 21, the second working day of its ongoing ninth session.

Vietnam opposes any threat of force or use of force against the territorial integrity, independence, sovereignty of all states and interference in their internal affairs, the Vietnamese Ambassador to the UN told a UN Security Council (UNSC) teleconference on May 20.