Mongolia Brief July 1, 2014 Part I
Vice Speaker meets Petr Kynstetr
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) A Vice Chairman of the State Great Khural (parliament)
L.Tsogt Tuesday met visiting Mr Petr Kynstetr, a Secretary-General of Chamber
of Deputies of the Czech parliament.
Expressing a satisfaction
with the visit of the Czech delegation, Mr Tsog recalled his visit to the Czech
Repuiblic, when he was a secretary-general of parliament in 1996-1999, and of
Mr Kynstetr ten years ago. It was the time "when we started our
collaboration," he noted.
In turn, Mr
Kynstetr said he is happy to meet again with the Vice Speaker and congratulated
Mr Tsog on being appointed the Vice Speaker. He expressed a satisfaction with
reviving of the Mongolia-Czech inter-parliamentary ties.
Mr Tsog wished
Mr Kynstetr and accompanying him delegates an enjoyable time here.
Honorary Consulate opens in Belgrade
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) A Mongolian Honorary consulate launched its operations in
Belgrade, Serbia on June 27.
The Consulate
will be operational under a leadership of the recently appointed Honorary Consul
Prof Dr Marco Bumbasirevic, a Prof. of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology
and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery Department in Belgrade.
At the opening
ceremony speeches were given by Ambassador of Mongolia to Serbia T.Gandi, the
Serbian Deputy FM Dragan Momcilovic, and Honorary Consul Marco Bumbasirevic.
Mr
Bumbasirevic, the first ever Honorary consul of Mongolia to Serbia, promised
efforts to protect legal rights of Mongolians residing in Serbia, to develop
the Mongolia-Serbia relationship and cooperation in all fields, as well as to
promote knowledge about Mongolia in Serbia. He also noted a readiness of the
Serbian authorities to support his efforts.
Before the
ceremony, Ms Gandi had met with the consul to ask him to give a priority in
increasing number of Mongolian students seeing high education under
scholarships of the Serbian side, and in granting the scholarships for two in
academic years of 2014-2015.
Ms Gandi also
gave Mr Bumbasirevic recommendations her Embassy wants to get reflected in the
2014 action plans of the Honorary Consulate, and signed with him a memorandum
of understanding.
Budget performance for 2013 adopted
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) A plenary meeting of the parliamentary session on Tuesday ran
the second discussion of the parliamentary resolution on approving the 2013
budget performance of Mongolia, and then adopted it with 72.9% votes.
The
presentation of the budget performance by the Sub-committee on budgetary
expenditure monitoring was made by J.Erdenebat MP, the conclusion was presented
by Ch.Khurelbaatar MP. Thus, the parliamentary session approved a draft
resolution of parliament on taking some measures in a scope of adoption of the
2013 budget performance.
The same day,
the plenary meeting passed a draft resolution of parliament on altering a
composition of one Standing committee, and ran a first discussion of a draft
resolution of parliament on approving the Basic Guidelines of Social-Economic
Development of Mongolia in 2015.
Holiday for Naadam festival prolonged
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) Holiday for the National Great Festival--Naadam will have
five days, from July 11 to 15.
It was decided such
after the plenary session of the parliamentary session on Tuesday had ran a
first discussion of a draft amendment to the law on public celebration and
remarkable days. The amendment was passed by 63.8% voted of MPs.
In conjunction
with prolonging the Naadam holidays, a draft amendment to the law on labour was
adopted as well.
The alteration
of the law on public holiday came into force from the adoption day.
Parliament Office chief meets Czech counterpart
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) A head of the parliament office B.Bolbaatar met Tuesday with
Mr Petr Kynstetr, a Secretary-General of Chamber of Deputies of the Czech
Parliament.
Pleased to meet
his counterpart from the Czech Republic, Mr Boldbaatar briefed the guests about
the organizational structure of the parliament office of Mongolia and expressed
a willingness to broaden cooperation and to share best experiences.
Mr Kynstetr
said that seeing how close nomadic Mongolians live to the nature was very
pleasing, and noted that his visit has been paid as part of collaboration
between the Embassies of the two countries. He wants to successfully continue
ongoing cooperation between the sides, the Czech politician invited his
Mongolian counterpart to pay a visit to the Czech Republic. The Czech
parliament is working on a new law on public offices, Mr Kynstetr said and
asked about Mongolia’s law with similar purposes.
At the end of
the meeting, the two signed a memorandum of cooperation.
Czech delegation visits Parliamentary Session Hall
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) Being here with the official visit, a delegation headed by Mr
Petr Kynstetr, a Secretary-General of Chamber of Deputies of the Czech
parliament, got acquainted Tuesday with the Hall of Parliamentary Session at
the State House.
The Chairman of
the State Great Khural (parliament) Z.Enkhbold greeted the delegation.
In frames of
the visit which will continue until Wednesday, the delegation will leg the
“Gobi” cashmere company, Gandantegchilen Monastery, National Museum and
exhibition of Skoda cars.
Bayankhoshuu and Selbe Areas to Be Developed as Subcenters of Ulaanbaatar under ADB Soft Loans
July 1
(infomongolia.com) At the Cabinet meeting held last Saturday, June 28, Minister
of Economic Development N.Batbayar was entrusted to sign the first phase of
Loan Agreement on "Ger Areas Development and Investment Support
Program" between the Government of Mongolia and the Asia Development Bank
(ADB).
So on June 30,
2014, Minister N.Batbayar and ADB Country Director Robert Schoellhammer have
signed a 104.5 million USD Loan Agreement, the Tranche 1 of the "Ger Areas
Development and Investment Support Program", whereas the ADB and the
European Investment Bank to provide soft loans, including commercial loans and
grants estimated total of 82.08 million USD, and Ulaanbaatar Administration to finance
the rest of 22.42 million USD.
At the signing
ceremony, Deputy Governor of the Capital City responsible for Construction,
Urbanization and Investment Issues S.Ochirbat was also present to co-sign the
document.
The 3-year
project objective is to restructure the Ger Districts in Ulaanbaatar with
participation of residents by expanding water supply, sewerage and heating
service systems, improving socio-economic infrastructure and in the frameworks
of the Capital City General Plan, considered development strategic territories
of Bayankhoshuu and Selbe areas will be developed as subcenters of the
Ulaanbaatar.
Related:
Project
to be implemented to redevelop ger areas with ADB loan – Montsame, July 1
Urban Services and Ger Areas
Development program signed – Mongolian
Economy, July 1
Vice FM congratulates S.Oyun
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs D.Gankhuyag Tuesday met
Ms S.Oyun, the Minister of Environment and Green Development, in the State
House.
On behalf of
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and all diplomats of Mongolia, the Vice
Minister congratulated her on taking part as the chair in the first
United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in June 23-27 in Nairobi, Kenya, and
gave her a Gerege (paiza).
Ms Oyun served
as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2007-2008.
MongolBank to cooperate with FSA
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) The Bank of Mongolia (BoM) and the Financial Services Agency
of Japan (FSA) will cooperate.
A memorandum of
the cooperation was inked on Monday by N.Zoljargal, the BoM president, and by
Ryutaro Hatanaka, a Commissioner of the FSA.
Accordingly,
the sides will upgrade the financial regulation system, develop the financial
market, and share knowledge and experiences in the financial services.
Stock exchange news for July 1
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) At the Stock Exchange trades held Tuesday, a total of 6,492
shares of 14 JSCs were traded costing MNT six million 821 thousand and 840.00.
"Genco
tour bureau” /3,407 units/, "Khokh gan" /1,332 units/, "Merex”
/510 units/, "Sharyn gol” /477 units/ and "Moninjbar” /264 units/
were the most actively traded in terms of trading volume, in terms of trading
value--"Sharyn gol” (MNT three million 480 thousand and 420),
"Material impex" (MNT one million 166 thousand and 460), "Gobi”
(MNT one million 042 thousand and 955), "Genco tour bureau” (MNT 296
thousand and 409) and "Baganuur” (MNT 213 thousand and 600).
The total
market capitalization was set at MNT one trillion 588 billion 912 million 519
thousand and 291. The Index of Top-20 JSCs was 15,584.80, increasing by MNT
96.00 or 0.62% against the previous day.
“National campaign against cancer was successfully held
July 1
(news.mn) Nationwide “National campaign against cancer” by the National Cancer
Centre of Mongolia, Khan bank and Mongolian National Broadcaster /MNB/
was successfully implemented in the last destination of the project,
Ulaangom in Uvs aimag from June 22nd to 28th. National Cancer
Centre of Mongolia, Khan bank and Mongolian National Broadcaster /MNB/
signed co-operation document at a ceremony for the launch of the fourth year of
the “National campaign against cancer”-2014 at the National Cancer Centre of
Mongolia last February.
An opening for
the nationwide “National campaign against cancer” was held in Darkhan-Uul aimag
on May 11th. There has been a series of activities carried
out for the campaign including check-up trip by the specialists and
doctors of the National Cancer Center in high-risk aimags including Uvs, Khovd,
Bayan-Ulgii, Darkhan, Selenge, Dornod, Sukhbaatar. Zavkhan, Govi-Altai.
Related:
Campaign
held against cancer – Montsame,
July 1
Mongolians win three "gold" in cross country contest
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) Three Mongolian teenagers B.Bilguudei, T.Monkhzul and N.Dulam
have won gold medals each in the Asian School Country Championship in Zuunmod
town of Tov province.
The medals came
in boys 5km, girls 3km and 4km events, respectively. In the medal total, Mongolia
led all six countries involved, followed by Hong Kong and Macau.
The Mongolian
Track and Field Association together with Junior Sports Union organized the
tournament in Zuunmod town last Saturday. Young athletes from Mongolia, Russia,
China, Macau, Hong Kong and Malaysia competed in four age groups. Girls and
boys of 14-15 ran distances of 3km and 5km, while 16-17-aged traversed longer
4km and 6km distances.
As the host
nation, Mongolia was represented by five in each event, while other countries
put four runners for each distance.
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Three Judokas of London Olympics, T.Khaibulaev
(RUS),
N.Tuvshinbayar (MGL) and D.Peters (GER) to Meet
Again
in UB at Chinggis Khaan Judo Grand Prix
July 1
(infomongolia.com) Under the auspices of the President of Mongolia, the
Chinggis Khan Judo Grand Prix will be taking place at the Buyant-Ukhaa Sports
Complex in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia on July 04-06, 2014.
In this
edition, over 350 judokas from about 40 nations are to gather including participants
from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong,
Hungary, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, North Korea, Philippines, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey,
Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.
Notably, London
Olympic Champion from Russia, Tagir Khaibulaev (Men’s -100 kg) is
participating, who defeated over our Beijing Olympic Champion N.Tuvshinbayar at
the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Besides, Canadian Bronze medalist in the Men's
-81 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Antoine Valois-Fortier as well as
London Olympics Bronze medalist Dimitri Peters (Men’s -100 kg) from Germany are
also to compete at this prestigious 2014 Chinggis Khaan Judo Grand Prix.
The Judo Grand
Prix will be held in the Women’s -48kg, -52kg, -57kg, -63kg -70kg, -78kg, +78kg
and in the Men’s -60 kg, -66 kg, -73kg -81kg, -90kg, -100kg, +100kg categories
and as a host nation, Mongolia will be competing with 4 judokas per weight.
According to
organizers, Tagir Khaibulaev (RUS) and Dimitri Peters (GER), Gold and Bronze
medalists in the -100 kg at the 2012 London Olympics are arriving in
Ulaanbaatar tomorrow on July 02, 2014, and London Olympics Silver medalist N.Tuvshinbayar
(MGL) will be also competing, making the half-heavyweight category must-see
bouts.
Related:
“Chingis
Khaan” judo Grand Prix to run – Montsame,
July 1
“Temuulel” judo club opens
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) International master of sports and national wrestler with the
"Nachin" title B.Odkhuu has opened a judo club named
"Temuulel" /Aspiration/ together with his fellows.
An opening
ceremony of the club took place Monday in Ulaanbaatar with a participation of
J.Otgontsagaan, the secretary-general of Mongolia's National Olympic Committee,
Mongolia’s Judo Federation, and N.Tuvshinbayar, a State Honored Sportsman and
Olympic champion.
The club is to
provide children and athletes with nice opportunities to exercise judo. it also
has a pool.
Best young arts to be announced
Ulaanbaatar,
July 1 (MONTSAME) Best young artists will be announced in the "Grand
Art" fine art competition on July 1.
The award event
will take place in the Art Gallery of Mongolian Artists Union, where an
exhibition displaying artworks of these young talents will be mounted until July
6.
Promoting our
young artists and their creations, this exhibition will take place under
collaboration of the Mongolian Artists Union, its Young Artists Community,
artist L.Bumandorj, along with the International Cultural Exchanges Center in
Daejeon, South Korea.
Cinematographer D.Angarag to work in Hollywood
July 1 (UB
Post) Mongolian cinematographer D.Angarag will produced a movie in Hollywood,
reported news.mn.
D.Angarag has
previously worked on famous Mongolia movies such as “Minii Khursh Chutgur” (My
Neighbor is a Devil), “Bodliin Khulgaich” (Thief of the Mind), “Dev” and “Anu
Khatan” (Queen Anu).
He took part in
the 86th Academy Awards (The Oscars 2014), which took place in Hollywood, Los
Angeles in March. The cinematographer was also involved in a professional
cinematographer’s training by invitation of the American Society of
Cinematographers in October 2013.
He is expected
to work on movie called “Precious” in the USA soon.
Related:
Mongolian
cinematographer to work in Hollywood – Montsame,
July 1
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