Hanoi (VNA) – The firstextraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly (NA), opened inHanoi on January 4, is looking into some major, important, and urgent issues.

The opening plenum inthe morning saw the presence of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong,President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh, and NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

NA deputies’ delegations nationwide attended the session via videoconference.

In his opening speech, Chairman Hue emphasisedthat in 2021, especially the third quarter, the fourth wave of COVID-19 withthe spread of the Delta variant in almost all localities took a heavy toll onevery socio-economic aspect.

Given the country’s urgent demand andbasing on the Constitution, the Law on Organisation of the NA, and resolutionsof the parliament’s second session, the NA Standing Committee decided to summonthe first extraordinary meeting of the 15th NA so as to consider andmake timely decisions on some major, important, and urgent issues relevant tothe economy, society, finance, and budget with a view to providing timelysupport for the COVID-19 prevention and control programme and thesocio-economic recovery and development programme, he noted.

During this extraordinary session, theNA is set to vote on a resolution on fiscal and monetary policies to assist theimplementation of the socio-economic recovery and development programme, hesaid, describing this resolution as particularly important to coping with thepandemic, addressing losses, recovering and developing the economy and society,reviving the labour market, and dealing with social security and welfareissues.

These are supplementary policies which have not been included in the fiscal and monetary measures approved in thesocio-economic development, financial, public borrowing and debt repayment, andpublic investment plans for 2021 - 2025, he added.

The NA is set to debate and vote on a billamending and supplementing some articles of the Law on Public Investment, the Lawon Public - Private Partnership Investment, the Law on Investment, the Law on Electricity,the Law on Enterprises, the Law on Special Consumption Tax, and the Law on Enforcementof Civil Judgments.

During the meeting, the parliamentwill discuss and decide a resolution on piloting some special mechanisms andpolicies for the development of Can Tho in order to institutionalise the PartyCentral Committee and Politburo’s resolutions on this Mekong Delta city in atimely manner.

Besides, the NA Standing Committee andthe Government had agreed to submit to the extraordinary session a supplementary report on the current COVID-19prevention and control work, especially the response to the Omicron variant; theprevention, detection, and settlement of wrongdoings in the pandemic combat;the COVID-19 prevention and control programme; along with the programme onsocio-economic recovery and development.

The extraordinary session holds considerablesignificance and attracts great attention from people nationwide, overseasVietnamese, as well as the business community, Chairman Hue remarked./.