The safety of child jockeys during the Naadam races was discussed
in the Civil Chamber on July 1. Among the participants were the Union of
Honored Mothers and the Union of Mongolian Horse Sports.

Mothers called for a union of such children to
look

During his visit to Lithuania,
President Ts.Elbegdorj went to Vilnius University, one of the oldest centers of
learning in Europe, and saw its Mongolian collection. This includes works and
material collected by famous Mongolian scholar, Yu.Kovalevskii, ancient
dictionaries of Mongolian, both scholarly and travelers’

Ms. Vijay Lata Reddy, Deputy National Security
Advisor and Secretary in the National Security Secretariat of India, is on a
visit to Mongolia between July 3 and 6 on an invitation from her counterpart,
Ts.Enkhtuvshin. Ms. Reddy will call on Prime Minister S.Batbold,

Mongolia assumed the Presidency of the Community
of Democracies on July 1 as Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius
Ažubalis
presented the CoD flag to President Ts. Elbegdorj at its
Ministerial Conference. The Minister said that during its two-year Presidency,
Lithuania had done its best

Premier S.Batbold received the Deputy Minister for
Foreign Affairs of Japan, Koro Bessho, on June 30. Bessho was in Mongolia to take
part in the ninth bilateral policy consultative meeting. Batbold
offered his condolence for the tsunami and earthquake deaths in March, 2011

Representatives of 30 NGOs and civil movement groups, as
well as members of the families of those who died in the July 1 incidents, attended
a press conference called by the civil movement “Homeland, fairness and
independence” on the anniversary of the violence.

Among

The Development
Aid and Cooperation Office of the European Commission has given  Mongolia 2.5 million euro to implement a
3-year project together with Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
and Uzbekistan. The project will cover the following issues related to uranium
exploitation in Central Asia:
-Formulation
of parameters

Khusugtun band of the National Song and Dance Ensemble will
produce a performance of “throat song” at the Cultural Palace of Confederation
of Trade Unions on July 9. Shuren LLC is sponsoring the performance.

Features of Mongolian nomadic life will be
displayed during

The head of the NGO Citizens’ Fair Court, Kh.Bat-Yalalt,
has announced he will defend members of the Managing Council of Gal Undesten Union
who have been detained in prison on charges of using firearms, causing damage to
others’ property, and organizing demonstration without

MP E.Bat-Uul called a press conference yesterday to
demand the resignation of S.Batbold as Prime Minister. Bat-Uul explained that
certain actions of the Managing Council of the MPP have gone against decisions
of Parliament which is the supreme authority of the state. Batbold