MP B. Batjargal talks to our journalist after a working group he headed on the petroleum situation had submitted its report to the DP group in Parliament at a special meeting yesterday. What did your working group say in the

Mongolia has requested China for immediate supply of 22,000 tons of AI-92 petroleum and of regular monthly supplies of 10,000 tons thereafter. Deputy Prime Minister M.Enkhbold, who heads the Mongolian team at meetings of the Mongolia-China Commission, made the request

Prime Minister S.Batbold called Minister for
Mineral Resources and Energy D.Zorigt and the Chief of the Petroleum Authority,
J.Amarsaikhan, to a meeting yesterday to discuss the petroleum situation. He expressed
surprise and unhappiness that all sorts of contradictory rumors were being
allowed to spread,

Rio Tinto has chosen CiDRA Minerals
Processing’s flow monitoring systems as its preferred technology for use on
slurry lines at Oyu Tolgoi. CiDRA will instrument 30 lines at the new
concentrator, where the SONARtrac systems will provide increased
accuracy and reduced maintenance costs.

Construction

Eznis Airways, Mongolia’s leading
domestic airline, has agreed to a three-year support package with BAE Systems
for its newly acquired fleet of two Avro RJ85 regional jetliners. This ‘Total
Support’ package from BAE Systems Regional Aircraft covers JetSpares as well as
ongoing Continuing Airworthiness

MPRP newly registered as a political party by
the supreme court  made an announcement
yesterday.  A few months of  issue related to get that name was decided on
last Friday. Our journalist talked to N. Enkhbayr, the head
of MPRP about this issue.

-MPRP has

The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy told
importers at a meeting on Monday evening to immediately stop selling petroleum against
cards or tokens and not to make any similar arrangement in the future. He
instructed them to sell for cash from Tuesday.

Failure to get the expected
permission for extra flights in summer led to about 200 passengers booked on a
MIAT Mongolian Airlines Seoul-Ulaanbaatar flight being stranded in Seoul airport
on June 22. MIAT had planned two extra flights on June 22 and 23

President Ts.Elbegdorj, accompanied by his wife
Kh.Bolormaa, began his state visit to Ukraine on Sunday in Lvov city. That day
he visited the Academy of the Land Forces of Ukraine and met teachers and
cadets there. The President graduated from this Academy in

A total ban on smoking in Government House has been in
force since June 26.  The initiative was
taken by the staff, most of whom do not smoke. They made a request to some MPs,
the Head of the President’s Office, D.Battulga, the