his Slovak counterpart to provide technical assistance for State Audit
of Vietnam, with funding to come from Slovak Official Development
Assistance (ODA) and State budgets.
Talks between
Auditor General Vuong Dinh Hue and President of Slovakia’s Supreme
Audit Office (SAS) Jan Jasovsky focused on the agreement of cooperation
signed in Bratislava , Slovakia , in December, 2009.
Under the document, SAS will help the State Audit of Vietnam increase
its competence in budget auditing and verifying State budget estimates
before submission to the National Assembly for approval.
The scheme also calls for further cooperation in consultancies around
information technology, under which the SAS will send experts to
Vietnam for exchange of experience.
During the
talks, the Vietnamese auditor general also expressed interest in sending
his staff to Slovakia to attend workshops and take part in
programmes sponsored by SAS.
Further cooperation
with SAS within the framework of the International Organisation of
Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) was also high on the duo’s talks,
focusing on environmental audit, public debt audit, IT audit, auditing
quality supervision and operational auditing./.
