An earthquake occurred in the popular tourist destination of the Kharmagtai district in the Khuvsgul province in northern Mongolia on 1st of April.

Earlier today (31st of March), the ‘People’s Special Committee’ movement organised a demonstration against offshore account holders on Ulaanbaatar’s Sukhbaatar Square in front of the State Palace, where the parliament, government and the presidential administration are based.

Mongolian Foreign Minister Ts.Munkh-Orgil will visit to the Vietnam on 2nd-4th of April at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam Pham Binh Minh.

Robert Glasser, Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction will visit Mongolia for the ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting.

The Government of Mongolia and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, UN-ISDR) will host the ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting in Ulaanbaatar on 4th-5th of April.

According to Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi LLC, Mongolia’s debt to the ’Aluminum Corporation of China’, better known as CHALCO, has finally been extinguished. 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering lending up to USD 30 million (EUR 28m) for the construction of the 55-MW Sainshand wind park in Mongolia’s Gobi desert.

Ulaanbaatar Mayor S.Batbold, has announced that the operation of a quarry next to the River Tuul is to cease. The ban comes into immediate force from  today (29th of March).

The Mongolian Great State Khural (parliament) approved a ’Law on Deliberative Polling’ during the autumn session. In this connection, Ts.Tsolmon, State Secretary of the Office of Parliament has met Professor James S. Fishkin, director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy to discuss an agenda for implementing the law.

D.Zagdsuren has been reelected as Mongolia’s NOC president at the committee’s seventh elective congress in the country’s capital Ulaanbaatar.