Addressing more than 3,000 young people brought together
by the Ulaanbaatar wing of the MPRP, Prime Minister S.Batbold said citizens
will be given shares in the Tavantolgoi coal deposit. This was the first
categorical and unequivocal statement on an issue that has thrown up a lot of
speculation. All that the Prime Minister and his colleagues had said so far was
that the deposits would be fully owned by Mongolia.