The 14th meeting of the 11th Party Central Committee opened in Hanoi on January 11, scheduled to discuss the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and finalise personnel preparations for the next tenure.
As the Politburo is set to submit a report on preparations for the TPP signing to the Party Central Committee, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong asked the Committee’s members to scrutinise the TPP negotiations’ outcomes and analyse the trade deal’s impacts.
He told the participants to give opinions about the official signing of the TPP and the submission of the pact to the National Assembly for approval. The design of implementation plans also needs a close look, he said.
Vietnam and 11 other Asian-Pacific countries concluded more than five years of negotiations on the TPP on October 5, 2015. The deal is a new-generation free trade agreement (FTA) with requirements much stricter than existing FTAs and covering both trade – investment issues and related matters.