General Phan Van Giang chaired the conference on project development...

Attending the conference were: General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission , Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, and Deputy Minister of National Defense ; Lieutenant General Nguyen Quang Ngoc, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army; Lieutenant General Truong Thien To, Deputy Head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army; and representatives from the leadership of various general departments and agencies under the Ministry of National Defense.

The scene at the conference.

In accordance with the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents of 2025, the Ministry of National Defence is researching, developing, and submitting to the Government a draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 11 laws (hereinafter referred to as the draft law), including: the Law on National Defence; the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army; the Law on Professional Soldiers, Workers and Civil Servants of National Defence; the Law on Military Service; the Law on Vietnam Border Guard; the Law on People's Air Defence; the Law on Reserve Mobilization Forces; the Law on Civil Defence; the Law on Management and Protection of National Defence Works and Military Zones; the Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces; and the Law on National Defence and Security Education.

According to the Legal Department (Ministry of National Defense), based on the provisions of the 2013 Constitution, the National Assembly has enacted 11 laws related to the military and national defense sector. However, the 2013 Constitution and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) will be submitted to the National Assembly at the ninth session of the 15th National Assembly for consideration and comments. These amendments and additions include a provision on local government, proposing the abolition of district-level administrative units; local government will only be organized into two levels: provincial and commune. These provisions directly impact several provisions of the aforementioned 11 laws.

General Phan Văn Giang chaired the conference.

To ensure the constitutionality and consistency of the legal system, the Ministry of National Defense recognizes the need to study and amend several provisions of laws in the military and defense sectors. This is so that immediately after the National Assembly considers and approves the Resolution amending and supplementing several articles of the 2013 Constitution, the laws will also be amended and supplemented simultaneously. This will provide a legal basis for carrying out functions and tasks in the military and defense sectors, ensuring consistency, uniformity, and conformity with State regulations on administrative units and two-tiered local government.

In his concluding remarks at the conference, General Phan Van Giang affirmed that the current laws on military and national defense have fully and promptly institutionalized the Constitution and the Party's guidelines and policies on consolidating and strengthening the all-people national defense, promoting the country's overall strength to firmly protect the Fatherland; contributing to the protection of peace in the region and the world; protecting the people, the Party, the State, and the socialist regime.

Leaders of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army and leaders of the General Department of Logistics and Technical Services attended the conference.

Leaders of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army and leaders of various units attended the conference.

In response to practical demands, amending and supplementing certain provisions of laws in the military and defense sectors is absolutely necessary to fully and promptly institutionalize the policies and orientations in the Party's documents and resolutions, the conclusions of the Politburo and the Secretariat, and the provisions of the Constitution and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) related to the rearrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels.

Minister Phan Van Giang requested that the draft law specify regulations related to the authority, functions, and tasks in the military and defense sectors when district-level governments are abolished and provincial and commune-level governments are merged.

The relevant agencies conducted thorough research and developed a draft law ensuring consistency, uniformity, and synchronization, based on inheriting existing regulations that are still relevant to practice. The draft law only amends and supplements a few technical articles related to the organizational model and apparatus after reorganization; ensuring effectiveness, efficiency, and uniformity in the implementation of decentralization in accordance with the reorganization of local troops; and completely eliminating overlapping and duplication of functions, tasks, and powers.

General Phan Van Giang noted that the relevant agencies of the Ministry of National Defense should closely coordinate, revise and supplement some contents at the conference into the draft law, and urgently finalize the draft law to report to the Government and send it to the National Assembly's agencies for review, consideration, and feedback as soon as possible.

Text and photos: MINH MANH

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