The Standing Committee on
Justice yesterday approved further discussion of a draft law on firearms. The
draft seeks to bar foreigners from owning guns and to impose restrictions on
Mongolian gun owners.
Inspection has become lax in recent years and the number of

The
leader of the Morin Khuur band Domog, O.Bat-Orshikh, plans to form a National
Song and Music Association which will unite the 30 or so bands that play the
national music. He wants the NSMA to hold an annual festival regularly where
the best

The Chief
of the SME Office, Ts.Nyam-Osor, has told the Uls Turiin Toim newspaper that
the MNT24 billion in the Production Development Fund will be spent on setting
up and strengthening SMEs in soums all over the country. Each soum will be
allocated between

Khan-Uul and
Songinokhairkhan districts of Ulaanbaatar have taken up a project to quickly
relocate 2,880 households to areas free from threat of flooding. MNT34.87
billion will be spent on their removal, payment of compensation, and
establishing the new settlement. The district administrations also plan

The Chief of the MPP
group in Parliament, D.Lundeejantsan, told media that yesterday’s meeting of
the group agreed with the decision of the Managing Council of the MPP that members
of Parliament should be elected under a system that calls for both direct
election

Minister for Finance S.Bayartsogt yesterday told
journalists that of the 10 agreements signed during Prime Minister S.Batbold’s
official visit to China between June 13 and 17, six were related to the economy.

One of these was on a Chinese Government soft
loan of USD500

Gal Undesten Union yesterday told journalists that it has
delivered demand notes to seven mining companies in Selenge and Darkhan-Uul
aimags in the last two weeks. Of them, Puraam LLC in Mandal soum of Selenge
aimag has stopped its activity and Buurgent LLC

The second
consultative meeting of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and
Switzerland was held in Ulaanbaatar between June 18 and 20. State Secretary at
the Ministry D.Tsogtbaatar headed the Mongolian delegates while the visiting
team was led by Biit Nobs, State Secretary

Organizers of a national
forum on reforming State service, to be held in Government House on June 23,
expect 600 delegates from the capital and the provinces to participate in it. The
idea of holding the forum came from Prime Minister S.Batbold. Much

The Civil Chamber of
the President will organize an open discussion on judicial reform tomorrow.
Senior Advisor of the President P.Tsagaan yesterday told journalists a
six-point draft of a reform agenda will be presented at the meeting. It has
been prepared by a working