The Ministry of
Social Welfare and Labor is cooperating with the Ministries of Road,
Transportation and Urban Development and of Mineral Resources and Energy to
train professional workers to meet their needs. It has made a study of the
likely demand for skilled workers

Minister for Foreign
Affairs and Trade G.Zandanshatar is preparing a draft law to prohibit storage
or reprocessing of any other country’s spent nuclear fuel in Mongolia. The present
law is also quite categorical about this but the Minister feels further
assertion of Mongolia’s stance

The leader of the Ongi River Movement, Ts.Munkhbayar, has
said that President Ts.Elbegdorj has told them it was not possible to accept
the demands put forward by the alliance of two civil movements,   Gal
Undesten Union and United Movements for Rivers and Lakes.

Prime
Minister S.Batbold told Parliament on Friday that following the 30% raise in
minimum wages, the Government would consider paying salary and pension at increased
rates, but only after making a careful study of the whole issue. He was taking
part in a debate

Two Mongolian kickboxers won medals at the WPKA World
Championship in Kiev that ended on May 15. U.Turbayar (65 kg) won the gold
medal and B.Naadam (75 kg) the bronze. Naadam defeated opponents from Afghanistan
and Ukraine before withdrawing because of injury, but

Parliament on Friday discussed several draft laws, on
education, health, excise tax and on additional payment for state officials in remote
regions, including the Gobi. Members approved further discussion on the last.

The
draft identifies 170 soums of Bayan-Ulgii, Bayankhongor, Gobi-Altai, Zavkhan,
Uvs, Khovd,

A group of prosecutors led by the State Prosecutor
General, D.Dorligjav, visited Belgium, the Netherlands and European Union
offices on May 18 and 19. At a meeting in the Ministry of Justice of Belgium they
discussed cooperation between legal organizations of the two

A meeting of the Consular Sections in the Foreign Ministries
of Mongolia and Russia was held in Ulaanbaatar on May 17. The two section
heads, D.Gankhuyag and A.G. Karpov, led their country’s delegation to the meeting
which discussed the visa issue, various subjects

A team of visiting Canadian rangers will share patrol
experience with the Mongolian police, according to an agreement reached earlier
this week between the Chief of the General Police Department, Gen.  D.Sandag-Ochir,  and Canadian Ambassador J. Gregory Goldhawk,
on a suggestion from the

The President and Executive Director of Oyutolgoi LLC,
Cameron McRae, has offered condolences to the families of the two contract
workers who died yesterday after falling into a sewage channel in the project
area. The company has begun an enquiry into how the