NA Standing Committee will convene its 23rd session on April 10. (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly StandingCommittee is scheduled to sit for the 23rd session in Hanoi on April10.
The legislators will devote most of their time during thenine-day session to law making. They are set to mull over an array of laws,including the Law on Coast Guards, the law amending and supplementing a numberof articles of the Law on Amnesty, the Urban Development and Management Law,the Husbandry Law, the Cultivation Law and the Population Law, among others.
They will also look into adjustments to the draft revisedLaw on Anti-corruption and continue to give opinions to contentious contents ofthe draft Law on Special Administrative-Economic Units.
Besides, the lawmakers will discuss preparations for thefifth meeting of the NA, the supervision programmes of the NA and its StandingCommittee and the law and ordinance building programme in 2019.
They will also work on the Government’s report on the thriftpractice and wastefulness in 2017, and consider the establishment of Phu Mytown and its wards in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, andPhuoc Cat town in Cat Tien district, the Central Highlands province of LamDong.-VNA
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NA Standing Committee will convene its 23rd session on April 10. (Source: VNA) 
