Newly-elected chairman of the National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, in his speech on acceding to office on Monday, pledged to renovate and improve quality of the legislature's activities.

"I will try my best to overcome difficulties..to continue renovating and improving quality of the NA's activities, in the fields of legislation, supreme supervision and making decision of the state's important issues," said Trong.

The NA and its activities play an important part in the cause of the state construction and development, especially in building the socialist law-ruled state of people and for people, he said.

On Monday afternoon, 84.58 percent of all NA deputies voted for Trong, member of the Political Bureau under the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, secretary of the Party Committee of Hanoi capital, and director of the Central Theoretical Council, after the legislature on Monday morning officially approved the resignation of outgoing NA Chairman Nguyen Van An, born in 1937, due to age factor.

Source: Xinhua