The State Great Khural appointed members of the National Council of Mongolian National Broadcaster Television and Radio (MNB) during Thursday's plenary session meeting. But the Speaker of Parliament made remarks against MNB that outraged staff and workers of the broadcasting company.

Speaker Z.Enkhbold said during the appointments that MNB, the largest state-owned broadcaster with a team of 700 staff, airs copies of pirated foreign movies without official broadcasting rights, and that it is a place of binge-drinking.

Staff and workers at MNB responded by saying that the Speaker's remarks were offensive and demanded an apology to the team at MNB.

In response to the demand for an apology, Speaker Z.Enkhbold apologized for remarks offending MNB staff and workers, but commented that the remarks about binge drinking were directed at MNB directors like M.Naranbaatar, but not at the 700 staff and workers.