On Friday 25^th March, Parliamentary Speaker Z.Enkhbold announced that a non-regular session of the State Great Khural will be held this week, starting on 29^th March and lasting until 1^st April. During the non-regular session the following five issues will be discussed:

1. Law project to join the “Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Management” of 1997 of the the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

2. Law project to approve the revised protocol for the reduction of nuclear material

3. Law project to join the IAEA “Convention on Nuclear Safety” of 1994

4. Law project to approve the 2005 Amendment to “Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material” of 1980

5. The 4^th conclusion of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia

According to the order, the non-regular session will start on 29^th March at 09.00am and continue on 14.00 pm.

The legal mechanism which Mr Enkhbold used for calling the non-regular meeting of parliament was Order 40, which is based on Provision 27.3 of the Constitution and Provisions 16.2 and 16.4 of the Parliamentary Law (Law on the State Great Khural).

                      Source: Parliamentary Administration Media Bureau