ORAL TOPIC - 1 1- Public Administration The term “administration” has a long history. Some authors consider that the term coincides with the formation of the state long ago. In it broadest sense, administration can be defined as the activities of groups cooperating to accomplish common goals. Public administration is art or sience. The first, it is an art because some people have a gift for administration and become natural administrators. As a sience, public administration requires necessary tools that allow for the digestion and transference of information. Lawrence considers public administration as a professio. Public administration includees whatever the public employees of the world do ranging from typing documents to running general elections. According to Fletcher, “public administration can be used to denote: (1) The activity of public servants; (2) The structure of executive government: that is the institutions and patterns of relationships through which the activity of public servants as carried on; (3) The study of (1) and (2). Waldo gave the following definition of public administration: “ (1) public administration is the organization and management of men and materials to achive the purposes of government. (2) public administration is the art and sience of management as applied to affairs of the state. The components of the executive are :administrative power” and “regulatory power”. Administration institutions are comprised of legal and regulatory documents and rules to govern the organizations. 2- The political system of the SRV The SRV is an independent and sovereign country enjoying unity and territorial intergrity, including its mailand, islands, territorial waters and air space. The political system of the SRV consist of the state, the Communist Party of Vietnam and the socio-political organization in VN. The SRV is a state of the people, from the people, for the people. All state power belongs to the people and is based on an alliance between the working class, the peasantry and the intelligentsia. The state consist of the government, the national assembly and the judiciary. The state guarantees and unceasingly promotes the people’s mastery in all fields, and severly punishes all acts violating the interest of the motherland and the people; it strive to build a rich and strong country. The CPV, the vanguard of the Vietnamese working class, the faithful representative of the rights and interest of the working calss, the toiling people, and the whole nation, acting upon the Marxist- Leninist doctrine and Ho Chi Minh;s thought, is the force leading the state and society. All party organizations operatie with the framework of the constitution and the law. The socio- political organizations consist of The Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organization s, which constitute the political bese of People’s power. The main functions of the Front are promoting the tradition of national solidarity, strengthening the people’s unity of mind in political and spiritual matters, participating in the building and consolidation of people’s power. 3- The National Assembly of the SRV In the SRV, the only organ with constitutional and legislative power is the NA. The NA has the obligation and power to make and to amend laws, to work out a program for making laws and dcree-laws. According to the 1992 Constitution, the Country’s President, the Standing Committees of NA, the Nationalities Council and Committees of NA, the Government, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s office of Supervision and Control, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations may present drawf laws to the NA. Laws and resolutions of the NA must be approved by more than half of the total membarship of the NA; but decisions taken by the NA to amend the Constitution as stated in Article 147 must be approved by at least two- thirds of its total membership. Laws and resolutions of the NA must be made pblic fifteen days after their adoption at the least. The role of the Permanent Committee of the NA is to interpret the Constitution, the law and decree- laws, to enact decree-law on matters entrusted to it by the NA. 4- The Government of the SRV The Government of the SRV is the excutive body of the NA and the highest state administrative body of the SRV. The Government assumes the unified administration of the implementation of all political, economic, cultural, social, national defense, security and external activities of the state. The Government is accountable to the NA, the Satnding Committee of the NA and the President of the sate. The Government consist of ministries and ministerial level agencies. The NA appoints the Prime Minister, Vice- Prime Minister, ministers and heads of ministerial agencies. . ORAL TOPIC - 1 1- Public Administration The term “administration” has a long history interpret the Constitution, the law and decree- laws, to enact decree-law on matters entrusted to it by the NA. 4- The Government of the SRV The Government