Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly (NA) Secretariat led by NA Secretary General Bui Van Cuong attended the Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments (ASGP) meeting held between Sunday and Tuesday this week in Geneva, Switzerland.

NA Secretary General Cuong delivered a speech at the meeting’s plenary session, sharing the Vietnamese legislature’s experience in storing minutes of NA sessions and technology solutions to effectively keep meeting minutes, according to the NA Office.

Cuong mentioned the research and development of software and digital archives, measures to ensure safety and security in data archiving, and tech solutions in the digitization, management, and archiving of NA session minutes.

The Vietnamese NA Secretariat engaged in group discussions during the meeting, providing information about how the Vietnamese legislature has mobilized the participation of experts, scientists in NA programs.

The Vietnamese delegation was also briefed on the experience of other parliaments on the issues.

The delegation also participated in several sessions featuring important and pragmatic topics, such as the attendance of ministers of state to parliament to report and give explanations about their management of government business; parliament’s framework and tools for efficiently scrutinizing government spending; parenthood and parliament.

During his meeting with Secretary General of the House of Representatives of Morocco and President of the ASGP Najib El Khadi, Cuong suggested that the ASGP expand its scale of operations to pave the way for further in-depth and substantive discussions for parliamentary proceedings.

Both sides agreed to keep promoting the cooperation ties between the Vietnamese NA Secretariat with its Moroccan counterpart and the ASGP.

The Vietnamese NA Secretariat pledged to facilitate cooperation and exchanges with its counterparts in Switzerland, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.

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