NA Chairman stresses solidarity in Hanoi development
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on March 27 met outstanding scholars, intellectuals, religious dignitaries, and representatives from ethnic minority groups in Hanoi.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and delegates pose for a group photo. (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – National Assembly ChairmanVuong Dinh Hue on March 27 met outstanding scholars, intellectuals, religiousdignitaries, and representatives from ethnic minority groups in Hanoi.
At the meeting, the top legislator emphasised thetradition of solidarity, saying the Party and the State have viewed the greatnational solidarity bloc as the power, the main momentum and a factor decisive tothe past struggle for national liberation and reunification, as well as thepresent cause of national construction and defence.
According to Hue, ethnic minority people makeup 17.84% of the total seats in the 15th-tenure legislature, the highest so far.Among the NA deputies, there are also five religious dignitaries and 119teachers, former teachers and education managers.
He lauded contributions by religious dignitaries,ethnic minority groups, scholars and intellectuals to the capital city’sachievements in both Party building, and socio-economic development last year.
Hue expressed his hope that the municipal Partyorganisation, authorities and people, especially scholars, intellectuals, religiousdignitaries and ethnic minority people, will uphold the sense of responsibilityfor Hanoi’s development.
The NA Chairman shared the view raised by some delegatesthat Hanoi should pay due attention to building mechanisms and policies to encouragethe groups to play a more active role in the city’s construction and development.
Hanoi should mobilise, allocate, use and manage resourceseffectively to create basic changes in ethnic minority-inhabited areas, betterperform the social welfare work, and carry forward the role of Vietnam FatherlandFront Committees, and political-social organisations in building the greatnational solidarity bloc, he said.
Scholars, intellectual, religious dignitaries and ethnicminority people in Hanoi will prove their role as the nucleus in all patrioticemulation movements, he believed,pledging that the NA and its agencies will support their efforts to contributeto national construction and development./.
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National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and delegates pose for a group photo. (Source: VNA) 
