Friday
marks the first anniversary of Ts.Elbegdorj assuming office as the fourth
President of Mongolia. His very first action was a departure from tradition.
All his predecessors kept the inauguration ceremony limited to Parliament
members and dignitaries, but Elbegdorj received the greetings of the
First
Deputy Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag received on Thursday Steven Barnett,
chairman of the International Monetary Fund”s (IMF) Asia-Pacific Department and
head of a special committee for Mongolia. Barnett reiterated the IMF’s
commitment to the standby agreement but stressed the need for Mongolia also to
follow
Parliament
yesterday discussed draft laws relating to mining. One, developed by MPs
D.Gankhuyag and Z.Enkhbold, was not approved, with 62.8 percent of MPs voting
against it, while another, initiated by MPs N.Batbayar and S.Byambatsogt got
the support of 75.6 percent to be forwarded to
The Government will spend MNT 642.3 million for the Naadam
festival this year. The reserve fund will allot MNT100 million of this, with
the rest coming from the Ulaanbaatar budget and from the income during the
festival.
President B.Nagovits of the Republic of Buryatia recently
met with the Russian Federation’s President D. Medvedev and Prime Minister
Putin in Moscow to discuss several issues relating to his region, including
some concerning Mongolia. Medvedev has agreed to study his proposal to allow
third
D. Batbaatar, a senior official at the Auto Transportation
Agency of Mongolia, has said that the railway to be built around strategic
deposits will be effective in transporting minerals only if there are roads
linking it to the mines and surrounding habitations. The
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