Mongolian Foreign Affairs Minister L.Bold is attending the 4^th annual high level Freedom Online Coalition Ministerial Conference, “Free and Secure Internet for All”, that begin on April 28^th in Tallinn Estonia.

The Freedom Online Coalition Ministerial Conference is attended by over 400 representatives from 64 countries including Foreign and IT Ministers of 23 countries and over 180 representatives of civil society organizations, private sector and international media and business.

At the Ministerial Conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, United States Secretary of State John Kerry, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili and Speaker of the Kenyan National Assembly Justin Muturi delivered speeches.

This year the Freedom Online Coalition Ministerial Conference welcomed Moldova and Japan.

At the coalition's annual conference starting on Monday in Tallinn, ministers and high-level representatives of countries from around the world voted for Mongolia to chair the coalition. The Estonian President and Foreign Ministries of Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden suggested to hold the 5^th Annual Freedom Online Coalition Ministerial Conference in Ulaanbaatar and pledged their support.

Foreign Minister of Mongolia L.Bold delivered a speech at the conference and held a press conference along with the Estonian Foreign Minister.

The Mongolian Foreign Minister called for active participation in the Freedom Online Coalition Ministerial Conference to be held in Mongolia next year at a ceremonial conference held by Google.

In the framework of the conference, Foreign Minister L.Bold held meetings with his counterparts from Canada, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden and the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations of the UK.

The Freedom Online Coalition was created from a decision made at the Hague intergovernmental meeting in 2011 with the aim to protect and promote freedom of the internet globally and to thereby shape international decisions in that realm.