Continuing the program of the 31st session, March 18, at the National Assembly House, the National Assembly Standing Committee organized a Question and Answer Session for groups of issues in the fields of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance. Diplomatic.
The questioning session was held in the Dien Hong Room, National Assembly House, with online television connection to 62 bridge points of National Assembly Delegations (NA) in provinces and centrally-run cities. The questioning session program is broadcast live on the Voice of Vietnam, broadcast live on Vietnam Television, and Vietnam National Assembly Television for voters and the People to watch and supervise.
In his opening remarks, the Chairman of the National Assembly stated that at the recent 6th session, the National Assembly questioned 21 Ministers and Sector Heads on issues related to 21 areas mentioned in the resolutions. Resolution of the National Assembly on questioning and specialized supervision; Accordingly, the groups of questions covered cover most areas of socio-economic life. Therefore, the selection of a group of issues to be questioned at this session has been carefully considered. Based on the synthesis of information sources and proposals of National Assembly delegations, review the scope of questions raised at the 6th Session and meetings and sessions since the beginning of the term, starting from the actual situation. At the same time, to create conditions for all Ministers and Sector Heads to answer questions, the National Assembly Standing Committee (UBTVQH) has decided to select questions for groups of issues under its management responsibility. State management of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Foreign Affairs at this meeting. Accordingly, in the morning, under the direction of Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai, National Assembly delegates will question the Minister of Finance about the following groups of issues: Management and supervision of financial activities. Insurance business and service activities in the field of life insurance business; Appraisal and licensing of operations of companies providing financial-related services; implementation of laws on lottery, betting, casino and prize-winning electronic games business activities; Customs procedures, customs inspection and supervision; prevent and combat smuggling and illegal transportation of goods across borders; Price management and determination of prices of goods and services on the list of goods and services priced by the State.
The National Assembly Chairman also emphasized that in recent times, the National Assembly has paid attention to questioning many issues in the financial sector. Most of the issues questioned this time are new contents and are of great interest to National Assembly delegations, voters and people nationwide. “As a multi-sectoral field, it plays an important role in the country's socio-economic development, continuing to question the financial sector is essential to continue perfecting the legal and political framework. policies, organize implementation and strengthen inspection, examination and supervision to healthy the financial market, promote the development of financial services with high added value such as insurance, accounting, auditing, valuation..." - the Chairman of the National Assembly emphasized.
In the afternoon, National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh will moderate the questioning session with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, focusing on issue groups: The protection of Vietnamese citizens abroad; Law violations by Vietnamese citizens abroad and foreigners in Vietnam; Protect the legitimate rights and interests of Vietnamese fishermen; Current status of implementation of bilateral and multilateral agreements and solutions to promote the implementation of economic, trade and investment cooperation agreements; Support work to expand export goods markets, support Vietnamese businesses to avoid fraud; Promotion and promotion of Vietnamese tourism to the world and visa exemption for citizens of other countries to enter Vietnam to develop tourism; Management, arrangement, consolidation, improvement of qualifications and organizational capacity of the diplomatic apparatus (including Vietnamese representative agencies abroad); Solutions to strengthen prevention and fight against corruption and negativity in diplomatic activities.
According to the Chairman of the National Assembly, this is the first time the diplomatic field and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son have been selected for questioning. Since the 32th Party Congress until now, the world situation has undergone major and complex changes, with developments beyond normal forecasts, opening up many new opportunities, but also posing many great challenges. for our country. In that context, under the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, and the Government, the diplomatic sector has closely coordinated with Party foreign affairs, National Assembly foreign affairs and People's foreign affairs, deploying synchronously. , creative and effective in the Party's foreign policy and has achieved comprehensive and very important results as General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong assessed at the XNUMXnd Diplomatic Conference, foreign affairs work has achieving "many important and historically significant results and achievements, becoming an impressive bright spot" in the country's overall achievements. The work areas that the National Assembly Standing Committee was interested in questioning at this session also achieved many progressive results, making important contributions to the overall achievements of foreign affairs and diplomacy in recent years. Through this questioning activity, it will also contribute to clarifying the current situation, outstanding results, limitations, shortcomings and objective and subjective causes as well as clearly identifying directions and solutions. solutions to improve these work contents in the future.
With only one day of questioning time, to ensure maximum effective use of time, the Chairman of the National Assembly requested National Assembly delegates to ask clear, concise questions, get straight to the point, and debate frankly. responsible and constructive; According to regulations, each National Assembly delegate will conduct questioning for no more than 01 minute; Debate time should not exceed 02 minutes. At the same time, we request the Ministers to uphold their sense of responsibility, answer briefly and to the point, and clarify the questions raised by National Assembly deputies; Provide practical, effective, and feasible solutions, ensuring both timely and effective overcoming of immediate weaknesses and limitations, while also creating substantive, fundamental, and long-term changes for each issue. questioning, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of management in the field of management, meeting the requirements and expectations of voters and people nationwide.
The Chairman of the National Assembly said that during the questioning process, the Chairman will invite a number of additional Government members to participate in explaining and clarifying the issue. At the end of the questioning session, the National Assembly Standing Committee will issue a resolution as a basis for implementation and supervision./.