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Viewing cable 07HANOI720, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES PRISONER AMNESTY, REORGANIZES

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07HANOI720 2007-04-18 06:13 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Hanoi
VZCZCXRO8814
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHHI #0720/01 1080613
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 180613Z APR 07
FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5154
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH 2898
RUEHZS/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HANOI 000720 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS AND DRL/AWH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM VM
 
SUBJECT: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES PRISONER AMNESTY, REORGANIZES 
ITSELF DURING SHORTENED SPRING SESSION 
 
REFS: A) 06 HANOI 3012; B) HANOI 535 
 
HANOI 00000720  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
Summary 
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1. (SBU) The National Assembly (NA) convened March 20 for its 11th 
and final session prior to its May 20 elections.  Prior to wrapping 
up its abridged spring session on April 2, the legislature debated a 
new draft Amnesty Law and, in discussions with the Office of the 
Government and the Ministry of Public Security, agreed on an 
unprecedented July general amnesty, which is reportedly meant to 
coincide with President Triet's planned visit to the United States. 
The NA also took modest steps to reorganize itself and mandated an 
increase in the number of full-time NA deputies from 25 percent to 
30 percent of the total of 500 legislators.  This 
self-reorganization tracks with other NA efforts to carve out a more 
prominent role for itself in the areas of government accountability, 
oversight and anti-corruption efforts.  End Summary. 
 
Amnesty Tied to Triet Visit? 
---------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) During its shortened spring session, the Assembly debated 
the first draft of a new Amnesty Law, which would essentially codify 
what is already in the Vietnamese Constitution.  However, according 
to contacts in the Assembly, there continue to be differences in 
opinion between the legislature and the Office of the Government 
(OOG).  For example, the NA would like to consider irregularly 
scheduled amnesties, while the OOG wants to maintain the current 
practice of amnesties tied to major national holidays.  The Amnesty 
Law will be taken up again when the next National Assembly sits in 
the fall of 2007. 
 
3. (SBU) Furthermore, the NA, the OOG and the Ministry of Public 
Security (MPS) recently agreed to schedule a July 2007 general 
amnesty for prisoners.  This was reportedly done "to coincide with 
the visit of President Triet to the United States - as a 'gift' to 
President Bush," one contact said.  The GVN generally conducts 
general amnesties or sentence reductions on the occasion of the 
Lunar New Year (January-February), Victory Day (late April) and 
Independence Day (early September), and an amnesty in July would be 
unprecedented.  (Note:  The exact date, and possible beneficiaries, 
remains TBD.  End Note.) 
 
National Assembly Reorganizes 
----------------------------- 
 
4. (SBU) The NA also agreed to split two existing committees into 
four:  the existing Legal Committee will become the new "Law 
Committee" and the "Committee for Judiciary Affairs," while the 
Committee on Economic and Budgetary Affairs will become the new 
"Economic Committee" and the "Financial and Budgetary Committee." 
The new committee structure reportedly will allow for greater 
efficiency and enhanced NA oversight of agencies and GVN programs. 
Due to this new structure, the next National Assembly will need to 
be staffed by a greater percentage of full-time legislators, and the 
legislature decided to increase to 30 percent its ratio of full-time 
members.  (Note:  Currently, 25 percent of the NA's total of 500 
deputies are full-timers.  End Note.)  This increase will cover 
personnel for the two new committees as well as a larger National 
Assembly Standing Committee. 
 
5. (SBU) According to a briefing by Tran The Vuong, Vice Chairman of 
the NA's Legal Committee, the new Judiciary Committee is expected to 
help strengthen the independence of the court system and better 
monitor the activities of the Supreme People's Procuracy, the 
government's main investigation and prosecution arm.  The plan is 
for the Supreme People's Procuracy to ultimately re-structure and 
establish a new regional court system, Vuong explained. 
Furthermore, the NA is hoping its new Judiciary Committee will take 
on a much greater oversight role on government anti-corruption 
initiatives.  According to Vuong, the newly established economic and 
finance committees reflect post-WTO accession realities and the 
sheer volume of work resulting from Vietnam's tremendous economic 
growth and restructuring in the last five years, as well as the 
increase in foreign investment and resulting need for greater 
regulation and oversight. 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
6. (SBU) The National Assembly appears committed to continuing to 
carve out a larger role for itself in the areas of public 
accountability, government program oversight and anti-corruption. 
As our Assembly contacts often say, one way to do this is to 
increase the NA's overall expertise, professionalism and "policy 
sense" by raising the percentage of full-time legislators.  We 
 
HANOI 00000720  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
expect the NA to make efforts to further increase this percentage, 
as well as seek opportunities -- including by working with donor 
countries -- to expand and professionalize the cadre of legislative 
assistants and other staffers.  End Comment. 
 
ALOISI