Vietnam’s Auditor General becomes ASOSAI Chairman

Auditor General of the State Audit Office of Vietnam Ho Duc Phoc speaks at the plenary session of the 14th ASOSAI Assembly in Hanoi on September 19 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Auditor General of the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) Ho Duc Phoc received the chairmanship of the Asian Organisation for Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) from Malaysia at the first plenary session of the 14th ASOSAI Assembly in Hanoi on September 19. The plenary session followed a ceremony to open the 14th ASOSAI Assembly and celebrate 40 years of the ASOSAI Charter. In his speech, Phoc said it is an honour for him to assume the chairmanship of ASOSAI in the 2018-2021 term, noting that it is also the pride of the SAV as well as the Vietnamese people. The SAV will continue making utmost efforts to help build a strong ASOSAI community to contribute to economic development in Asia and around the world, he added. At the plenum, Auditor General of the National Audit Office of China Hu Zejun, who is also head of the ASOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA), delivered a report of the WGEA. She said thanks to the joint efforts of all member supreme audit institutions (SAIs), the WGEA successfully implemented the action plan for 2014-2016 and is actively performing the tasks under the action plan for 2017-2019. Over the past years, the WGEA has implemented many important activities, including the 6th and 7th seminars on environmental auditing, the 5th and 6th working… [Read full story]