The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade yesterday asked
the Standing Committee on Security and Foreign Policy to sanction more staff
for it, given the increase in its work in recent times. Minister G.Zandanshatar
also told the MPs about all the international agreements

Speaker D.Demberel
yesterday received a European Parliament team led by the head of its Central
Asia and Mongolia Section, Paolo Bartolozzi. The Chief of the Standing
Committee on Justice, D.Odbayar, Advisor to the Speaker D.Davaasambuu, and
other officials attended the meeting.
Demberel expressed his

The Standing Committee on Security and Foreign Policy approved
on Tuesday a proposal to establish consulates in San Francisco, USA, Osaka, Japan
and Hong Kong, China, and authorized O.Chuluunbat to submit the proposal in
Parliament. Earlier the MP had asked Foreign Minister G.Zandanshatar

The Supreme Court,
the Anti Corruption Authority and a UN project together reviewed the status of
implementation of the UN convention against corruption on Monday. The Director
of Research Center of the Court, Ch.Nyamsuren, spoke on how the convention aims
to curb corruption among

Pianist
S.Sayantsetseg, who was the first Mongolian to perform in New York’s Carnegie
Hall, will invite students and young pianists to take part in “Beyond Musica”
beginning on June 18. This will be the second year of the festival that she and
her husband

Advisor to the President L.Erkhembayar received on Monday
a team from Khalimag headed by the Director of Agriculture Research Institute there,
Arilov Anatolii Nimeevich. President Ts.Elbegdorj will soon visit Russia when
he will also be in the Khalimag Republic.

Nimeevich told Erkhembayar that

The Ulaanbaatar
Prosecutors’ Office  has forwarded to the
Investigation Department of the Anti-Corruption Authority (ACA) a letter N.Davaa,
a member of the Representatives’ Managing Council of the erstwhile Anod Bank,
sent it through his wife T.Oyungerel. This was his third letter from jail, all
of

Bayangol district
police nabbed a group of 15 robbers in a combined operation on May 12- 13
night. All those arrested are men between 20 and 25. They have for some time
been active in stealing mobile phones, picking pockets and lifting things

Prime Minister
S.Batbold is spending today in Ugtaaltsaidam, Bornuur and Batsumber soums of
Tuv aimag following the progress of spring planting with new technology. He
also will inaugurate the wheat storage elevator of Agro Complex LLC built with
money from the Agriculture Support Fund.
He

Having its own oil
refinery is the only way Mongolia can break out of its dependence on Russia for
its fuel needs. The Government wants a refinery to use the 120,000 tons of
crude drilled in Tamsag and 300,000 tons in Zuunbayan.
The