Raising the country’s position and prestige, reinforcing people’s confidence

The eleventh session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) successfully concluded in Hanoi on April 8 after 12 working days in a spirit of high responsibility and active contribution.

Raising the country’s position and prestige, reinforcing people’s confidence

This session of the National Assembly took place during the time when the entire Party, people and army began to focus on implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, while at the same time urgently and thoroughly preparing for the upcoming elections of deputies to the 15th NA and all-level People's Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure. The 11th session took place with many important contents. The NA assessed the achievements, the results achieved, and clearly pointed out the shortcomings and limitations in the fields of legislature, executive, judiciary, and other aspects of work. On that basis, the NA analysed the causes, drew lessons learned to continue to innovate as well as improve effectiveness and efficiency in the next term. At the meeting, the NA focused on considering and discussing the summary reports for the 2016-2021 term of the NA, NA agencies, the President, the Government, the Prime Minister, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, and State Auditor General.

The 14th NA has achieved many results, making an important contribution to successes in the national socio-economic development. The NA, the NA Chairperson, the NA agencies, and each deputy to the NA always upheld the sense of responsibility, proactively and closely cooperated with relevant agencies to successfully complete many working contents on the legislature, supreme supervision, and foreign affairs with many important highlights. Each NA deputy has always dedicated and actively worked to deserve the trust and expectation of the people. In their activities, the deputies focused on analysing the reality, looked directly at difficulties, challenges, and limitations, from which proposed specific solutions and participated in solving and deciding many important issues of the country.

In the past term, the State President tried his best to fully and effectively implement his duties and powers in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law, demonstrating his high responsibility to the Party, the State, the NA and the people. In working and daily activities, the State President is always responsible, exemplary, simple, close to the people, respectful of the people, wholeheartedly serving the Fatherland, serving the people, affirming the position of the highest leader of the Party and the State. The results of the State President's tenure have made important contributions to the entire Party, people and army, upholding the patriotic tradition, the will and strength of the great national unity bloc, strengthening the building and rectification of the Party and the political system; paying attention to effectively resolve national livelihood issues and pressing problems in society; improving people's material and spiritual life; consolidating and strengthening national defence and security potentials, firmly protecting the sacred independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and national sovereignty over seas and islands; and promoting foreign relations, deepening international integration, enhancing Vietnam’s position in the region and in the world.

As the executing agency of the NA and the highest state administrative agency, the Government and the Prime Minister have constantly innovated, improve the capacity and qualifications of national and social management, meeting the increasing demands of life, leading the national economy to overcome difficult times with numerous challenges, especially the complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic. The Government and the Prime Minister have organised the full and timely implementation of the Party's guidelines and resolutions of the NA, implementing their functions, tasks and powers in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law, while at the same time closely directing all levels and branches to actively innovate, strongly reform, and drastically take action. Thus ensuring the state administrative system from central to local to operate in an uniform, smooth, and effective manner...

Judicial agencies have focused on reforming and improving openness and democracy. The results of exercising the right of prosecution and judicial activities supervision have seen many positive changes. The judiciary agencies have completed important tasks, including dealing with corruption cases, handling high-ranking individuals who once held important positions in the administration. Cases were resolved in a timely manner, meeting the increasing demands of the fight against crime. The State Audit has also exerted a lot of effort to contribute to a healthy national financial system, and actively participated in the prevention and fight against corruption and wastefulness.

At the meeting, the State President, Prime Minister, NA Chairman, leaders of judicial agencies together with the NA frankly acknowledged the shortcomings of the past term, indicated the causes and proposed many specific solutions.

Another important issue that is monitored and cared about by people from all walks of life is that the NA considered and decided on the dismissal, election and approval of many high-ranking State personnel. This session elected NA Chairman, State President, Prime Minister and other leadership titles in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law. Immediately after being elected by the NA, under the sacred national flag, in front of the entire NA, the NA Chairman, the State President, and the Prime Minister took the oath of office. The oath of the leaders of the Party, State and NA resounded in the Dien Hong Hall as a commitment to the people as well as the legitimate aspirations of the whole people.

The 14th NA has ended. Voters and people believe that, under the leadership of the Party, state agencies have devoted their efforts to well perform their functions and tasks in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law, serving the people and national development. Therefore, people increasingly believe in and send their aspirations to the NA, deputies and agencies in the state apparatus. The year 2021 is the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress in the context of complicated and unpredictable changes in the world and regional situation, together with intertwined opportunities and challenges for the country. Therefore, the entire Party, army and people need to strongly promote national pride, passionate patriotism, dynamism and creativity in order to steadfastly overcome all challenges, striving to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, and other resolutions of the NA. In the immediate future, it is necessary to successfully complete the tasks of 2021 and successfully organise the upcoming elections of deputies to the 15th NA and all-level People's Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure.