Attending the conference were comrades: General Nguyen Tan Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense ; Lieutenant General Nguyen Quang Ngoc, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army; Lieutenant General Truong Thien To, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; representatives of leaders of general departments and agencies under the Ministry of National Defense.
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| Conference scene. |
Pursuant to the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents 2025, the Ministry of National Defense has researched, developed and submitted to the Government a draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 11 laws (hereinafter referred to as the draft law), including: Law on National Defense; Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army; Law on Professional Soldiers, Workers and Civil Defense Officials; Law on Military Service; Law on Vietnam Border Guard; Law on People's Air Defense; Law on Reserve Forces; Law on Civil Defense; Law on Management and Protection of National Defense Works and Military Zones; Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces; Law on National Defense and Security Education.
According to the Department of Legislation (Ministry of National Defense), based on the provisions of the 2013 Constitution, the National Assembly has promulgated 11 laws related to the military and defense sectors. However, the 2013 Constitution and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) will be submitted to the National Assembly at the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly for consideration and comments, including amending and supplementing an article on local government, planning to abolish the district-level administrative unit; local government is only organized into two levels, including the provincial level and the communal level. These regulations directly impact and influence some provisions of the 11 laws mentioned above.
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| General Phan Van Giang chaired the conference. |
To ensure the constitutionality and consistency of the legal system, the Ministry of National Defense finds it necessary to study and amend and supplement a number of provisions of laws on the military and defense fields, so that immediately after the National Assembly considers and approves the Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution, the laws will also be amended and supplemented at the same time; as a legal basis for the implementation of functions and tasks in the military and defense fields, ensuring consistency, unity and conformity with State regulations on administrative units and two-level local governments.
Concluding the conference, General Phan Van Giang affirmed that the current laws on military and national defense have fully and promptly institutionalized the Constitution, policies and guidelines of the Party on consolidating and enhancing the building of all-people national defense, promoting the country's overall strength to firmly protect the Fatherland; contributing to protecting peace in the region and the world; protecting the people, the Party, the State and the socialist regime.
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| Leaders of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army and leaders of the General Department of Logistics and Engineering attended the conference. |
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| Leaders of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army and leaders of units attended the conference. |
In response to practical requirements, it is extremely necessary to amend and supplement a number of provisions of laws on the military and defense fields, in order to fully and promptly institutionalize policies and orientations in Party documents and resolutions, conclusions of the Politburo, the Secretariat, provisions of the Constitution, and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) related to the arrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels.
Minister Phan Van Giang requested that the draft law needs to specify regulations related to authority, functions, and tasks in the military and defense fields when not organizing district-level governments and merging provincial and commune levels.
The relevant agencies carefully research and develop a draft law to ensure consistency, uniformity, and synchronization, on the basis of inheriting current regulations that are still suitable for practice. The draft law only amends and supplements a number of technical provisions related to the organizational model and apparatus after the reorganization; ensures effectiveness, efficiency, and unified implementation of decentralization in accordance with the reorganization of local troops; thoroughly overcomes overlaps and duplications in functions, tasks, and powers.
General Phan Van Giang noted that the functional agencies of the Ministry of National Defense closely coordinated, edited and supplemented some contents at the conference into the draft law and urgently completed the draft law to report to the Government, send to the agencies of the National Assembly for review, consideration and comments as soon as possible.
News and photos: MINH MANH
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