PM's 30 Minutes: Erdenes OT Mongolia members leaving for London on Saturday

Ulaanbaatar, September 19 /MONTSAME/ The PM N.Altankhuyag said his first foreign visit, paid to Japan, was successful.

He Thursday said it at the beginning of the "30 minutes of Prime Minister" weekly meeting with the media. Then he noted that the irregular session of parliament began discussing the five bills submitted by his cabinet.

He was asked about the 8% mortgage loan programme, "which might stop, as people are afraid", and influence of currency fluctuation on prices of consumer products, fuels and supply. He replied that the mortgage loan programme is running normally and it will continue, adding that a working group is working to deal with people's complaints and requests. The cabinet is pursuing a policy on keeping constant the fuels prices, and no price soar and fuel shortage will happen, he stressed.

Having admitted that the prices of some import products such as rice, sugar and vegetable oil went up a bit due to currency rate fluctuation, he said no further increase is to occur because these products' reserves are being added.

Apart of this, the Premier informed the media that three new members of the "Oyu tolgoi" company's board for the Mongolian side will leave for London Saturday to hold talks with the Rio Tinto Group. "These people are supposed to bring us a new information about an additional investment to a ground mine of the Oyu tolgoi and the cabinet stands for continuing the Oyu tolgoi project," the Premier emphasized.

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