National Assembly Chairman Trần Thanh Mẫn has urged the NA’s Committee for National Defence, Security and External Relations to accelerate reforms in legislative thinking, improve law-making quality, and strengthen oversight of international commitments and parliamentary diplomacy in the remaining months of 2026.
Addressing a working session with the committee’s standing board in Hà Nội on Thursday, Mẫn stressed the need for a concrete plan to institutionalise the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress and Politburo Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW on international integration, while implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 17-KL/TW on legislative orientation for the 16th-tenure legislature.
He also requested the committee to participate in a comprehensive review of legal documents and ensure that national defence, security and foreign affairs considerations are fully incorporated into draft laws.
Law-making and international treaty affairs will remain key tasks of the committee in 2026 alongside supervision and external relations activities, he said.
The committee is expected to examine the amended Law on Overseas Representative Missions of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam and coordinate with the Ministries of Public Security, National Defence and Foreign Affairs to study draft laws within its areas of responsibility.
