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AIPA NEWS BULLETIN

FIRST QUARTERLY                                                                    OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2007

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS VIETNAM

A.  Photo exhibition on AIPA/AIPO anniversary

Vietnam 1Ha Noi (VNA) – A photo exhibition, entitled “30th Anniversary of ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly/ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organisation (AIPA/AIPO)”, was opened in Ha Noi on November 8 by the National Assembly (NA) Committee for External Relations and the Viet Nam News Agency.

With nearly 100 photos reflecting AIPA/AIPO activities since the 16th AIPO General Assembly in Singapore, the exhibition focused on Viet Nam National Assembly’s participation in the organisation.

The 16th AIPO General Assembly, convened in Singapore, admitted the Viet Nam National Assembly as its 6th member on September 19, 1995.

The Viet Nam National Assembly successfully organised the 23rd AIPO General Assembly in Ha Noi in September 2002.

B.  NA Chairman highlights AIPA’s role in Southeast Asia 11/11/2007

Vietnam 2Ha Noi (VNA) – “After a 30-year development, the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) has not only matured, but has actively contributed to building Southeast Asia as a region of peace, stability, cooperation and development,” National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong said.

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), Chairman Trong has written an article praising the increasing role of AIPA in maintaining peace, stability and promoting unity and cooperation for Southeast Asia’s prosperous development.

The article also looks at the Viet Nam National Assembly’s contribution to AIPA over the past 12 years.

“AIPA is really an important forum for members of parliament to exchange their views and political opinions on regional and international matters of common concern, thus strengthening mutual understanding and trust among the legislative bodies and people of ASEAN countries as well as between ASEAN and the international community,” Trong said.

“AIPA’s proposals on many fields have actively impacted on policy making and supervising law enforcement in ASEAN member countries and strongly supported efforts for using and strengthening mechanisms to maintain political stability in the region.

“In the reality, AIPA has done much for peace, security and cooperation in the region and the world, resolving global issues such as preventing conflicts, terrorism and violence and striving for international relations on the basis of fundamental principles of international law and the UN Charter.”

Chairman Trong also wrote about the orientation of AIPA’s activities.

“Existing and developing over the past 30 years, AIPA has always been a focus of solidarity and friendship of parliamentarians – representatives of people of ASEAN countries,” Trong said.

“Leaders of the legislative bodies of these countries have opportunities to share their common idea for prosperity of each nation and development of the whole region.

“Currently, facing new requirements in the trend of regional and international integration, at a time when ASEAN member countries are striving for the target of an ASEAN Community, AIPA needs to affirm its role and voice as the representative organisation for the will and aspirations of people in ASEAN countries, looking toward an ASEAN Community – a community of the people, for the people, mutual assistance and sharing.

“Constantly strengthening and promoting unity, friendship and cooperation should be a spiritual line linking peoples in a united ASEAN community. This is also a basic lesson which has helped AIPA gain success over the past 30 years and for the future.

The Vietnamese National Assembly’s contribution to AIPA was also a focus of the article.

“Becoming a member of AIPA in September 1995, Viet Nam’s National Assembly has made important contributions to consolidating unity and unification within AIPA, promoting cooperation within the bloc, expanding multifaceted cooperation with parliaments of other countries in and outside the region, thus helping improve Viet Nam’s position and enabling the Vietnamese economy to intensively integrate in the regional and global economy,” Chairman Trong said.

“The Viet Nam National Assembly has dynamically participated in the organisation’s activities, actively implementing AIPA action plans and resolutions, while offering many valuable proposals in order to help governments of ASEAN countries resolve prioritised matters in the region.

“From the AIPA forum, a mutual understanding and trust, solidarity, friendship and consensus between the Vietnamese National Assembly and parliaments of other member countries has been continually increasing, which is also a basis for cooperative ties of mutual benefit between Viet Namand other countries inside and outside the region.

“Thanks to this forum, foreign friends better understand and pay more attention to Viet Nam. As a result, the friendship and cooperation between Viet Nam and these countries is constantly promoted, bilaterally and multilaterally.

“The Vietnamese National Assembly’s membership in AIPA is clearly an important step forward in implementing the country’s open-door foreign policy of diversification and multilateralisation in the interest of the country as well as common interest of the regional and world community.”

C.  AIPA  anniversary celebrated in Viet Nam14/11/2007

Vietnam 3Ha Noi (VNA) – The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) has played a crucial role in cementing and fortifying all-round cooperation of parliaments in Southeast Asia and accelerating the development of the ASEAN community, the Vietnamese top legislator said.

“AIPA has been growing alongside ASEAN in many spheres,” National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong emphasised at a ceremony to celebrate the 30th founding anniversary of AIPA, in Ha Noi on November 14.

Present at the event were State President Nguyen Minh Triet, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung, many other senior officials and all NA deputies, who are attending the on-going 2nd session of the 12th National Assembly in Ha Noi.

Through activities held in the AIPA framework, ASEAN legislators have established direct relationships with their peers from partner countries which enable them to share information and experiences and discuss bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual concern in open and constructive dialogues in order to deepen their mutual understanding and trust, NA Chairman Trong noted.

He went on to say that in the face of opportunities and challenges of the time, AIPA needs to renew its operating method to make its inner cooperation more practical and effective.

The renewing process requires AIPA member parliaments to take a more active part and uphold the principle of consensus, the Vietnamese top legislator underlined.

Trong stated that the Vietnamese NA has been enthusiastically taking part in all AIPA activities since it became an official member of the organisation in September, 1995.

In addition to this, the Vietnamese legislative body has also involved itself in the efforts to cement the organisation’s solidarity and unity and expand the cooperation among AIPA member parliaments and with parliaments in other countries.

The Vietnamese NA has made valuable initiatives that have assisted ASEAN member countries in dealing with prioritised issues in the region, NA Chairman Trong said.

Speaking at the celebration, Lim Thuan Kuan, Ambassador of Singapore, which currently chairs the AIPA, highlighted the crucial role of AIPA and legislators in efforts to build an ASEAN Community.

Vietnam 4To build up a strong ASEAN community, legislators should assist their governments in executing regional and international accords adopted by ASEAN, the ambassador said.

The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) is the new name of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organisation (AIPO), which was established in 1977 under the initiative of the top legislators of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in response to the need to increase cooperation among parliaments of ASEAN member countries.

Over three decades of development, AIPA now has eight official members, which are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia.

 

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