Nguyen Van An Elected Chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly

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Nguyen Van An Elected Chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly

The first session of the 11th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam Tuesday elected Nguyen Van An as the NA chairman.

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The first session of the 11th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam Tuesday elected Nguyen Van An as the NA chairman.

An, born in 1937 in Vietnam's northern province of Nam Dinh, was elected chairman of the 10th National Assembly in June 2001.

He was an alternate member of the Fifth Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and a full member of the Sixth, Seventh,Eighth and Ninth CPV Central Committee.

An has been a politburo member and the head of the OrganizationCommission of the CPV Central Committee since the Eighth National Party Congress in 1996, and politburo member and member of secretariat of the CPV Central Committee since the Ninth National Party Congress in April 2001.

Through voting at the current NA session, NA deputies agreed toreduce the number of vice chairmen of the National Assembly from five to three.

"The reduction shows the spirit of the country's administrativereform and streamlining the state apparatus," streesed An at the ongoing session of the 11th NA on Monday.

"The structure is also in line with the reduction of deputy prime ministers from five to three", he added.

The current session of the 11th NA elected three vice chairmen of the 11th National Assembly, namely Truong Quang Duoc, Nguyen Van Yeu and Nguyen Phuc Thanh, and 13 members of NA Standing Committee.

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