Mongolia Brief August 29, 2014 Part II
Dairy
Factory to Open in Selenge
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
August 29 (MONTSAME) Selenge aimag is to open its own dairy factory to produce
final products.
This is a
result of the aimag governor's working visit to Chinese Kharbin during which
the two sides had signed a cooperation agreement. The governor also had
proposed setting up seabuckthorn processing factory and assembling here
technical tools made in China.
Selenge aimag
produces over 40 thousand tonnes of milk a year, only 4-5 thousand tonnes go to
the domestic market. In view of this, Kharbin administration had accepted the
suggestion to build a primary processing dairy products factory.
International
Scholars to Gather Here
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
August 29 (MONTSAME) The UB city is to host two international events soon.
The first
one--a “Mongolia-European historic meeting in 13th century”--will start on
September 2 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations
between Mongolia and Germany. It will gather scholars from Germany, Russia,
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
The second
one--"Eurasian nomadic life, history and culture, environment issues"
will run September 5-6 at initiative of History Institute of Academy of
Sciences of Mongolia and is supposed to attract Center for North East Asian
studies of Tohoku University of Japan, Institute of Humanities and Northern Minorities
Studies of Bracnh of Siberia of Russian Sciences Academy, University of
Education of Chinese Inner Mongolia. Many scholars will give presentations
about Mongolian history, culture, society, economy and environmental issues
such as climate, animal and plantation of 13-20th centuries.
Omnogobi
Receives Ambulance Cars
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
August 29 (MONTSAME) These three fully equipped cars have been purchased from
Germany.
The
"BAC" company director has arrived to the locality himself. This
purchase, reflected in the aimag governor's “General guidelines of social-
economic development for 2014”, has been made under the locality's investment.
These cars will
greatly improve the first aid medical service in the aimag, the governor
and the company director say.
Invest
Mongolia 2014 coming soon
August 29
(news.mn) The annual Invest Mongolia conference by Frontier Conference will be
held on September 2 and 3, in UIaanbaatar.
One of the
largest events in the investing field in Mongolia, Invest Mongolia 2014 will be
a platform for representing government officials, economists, researchers and
entrepreneurs to share views on government policies and their implications, the
challenges and opportunities of investing Mongolia, current development at
Oyu Tolgoi, Tavan Tolgoi and other major mining projects, and updates on
Mongolia's legal, accounting and other regulatory changes.
Invest Mongolia
2014 will be held at Blue Sky Hotel for two days.
Mongolia
to Appoint Government Permanent Representation at IMF and World Bank’s Board of
Executive Directors
August 29
(infomongolia.com) At the Cabinet meeting held on August 28, it was resolved to
appoint government permanent representation at international banks and
financial institutions.
Within the aim
to increase number and capacity of Mongolian experts at international banks and
financial institutions, it was resolved to implement a program by sending a
group of specialists for experience study purposes to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
Moreover, it
was agreed to appoint Advisors to represent the Government of Mongolia at the
IMF and the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. This decision was issued
because of no government permanent representations at the IMF, World Bank or
other international banks or financial institutions to date, where Mongolia
already became a member-economy.
In the scope of
appointing government representation at above organizations, Cabinet members
deem Mongolia would be enabled to reflect its position, strengthen partnership
and fully implement its rights and priorities at governing level of these
international banks and financial institutions with regular participation in
their activities.
Cabinet
Meeting Resolutions in Brief: August 28, 2014
August 29
(infomongolia.com) The regular Cabinet meeting of the Government of Mongolia
was held on August 28th through which the following issues have been resolved.
- Minister of
Finance Ch.Ulaan introduced the current situation and summary of procurement
process in the first half of 2014 carried out by budget general governors.
In this regard,
budget governors are obliged to take some measures intensifying some
procurement process following the Government Ordinance No.12 issued on March
28, 2014.
- Following the
General Department of Taxation and General Agency for Specialized Inspection
investigations, three special licenses to manufacture alcohol were suspended
that were owned by “Khuvshikh” and “Ganbogd” companies locate in Bayankhongor
Sum of Bayankhongor Aimag, and “Bi Tse Trade” LLC in Khan-Uul district of
Ulaanbaatar.
- Police
Colonel S.Baatarjav, who was serving as the Acting Chief of National Police,
was appointed as the Chief of National Police succeeding B.Bilegt.
- It was agreed
to form "Agricultural Reinsurance" Joint Stock Company. This company
will manage agricultural reinsurance activities and the company's shareholder
rights and duties will be administered by the Minister of Finance.
Defense
Minister of Mongolia Attends in Inauguration Ceremony of Turkish President
Recep Erdogan
August 29
(infomongolia.com) Minister for Defense of Mongolia, MP D.Bat-Erdene, Head of
Mongolia-Turkey Intergovernmental Committee chairing Mongolian side, and
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Republic of
Turkey B.Batkhishig have attended in the inauguration ceremony of the Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The oath taking
ceremony was held in the Parliament Hall on August 28, 2014, where over 90
state, government and parliament leaders have attended.
Following the
ceremony, Defense Minister D.Bat-Erdene congratulated the newly elected 12th
President of the Republic of Turkey Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and held a brief
meetings with President of Kazakhstan N.Nazarbayev, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim
bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian
Federation S.Naryshkin, Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament A.Jeenbekov, Speaker
of the Parliament of Turkey Cemil Cicek, Prime Minister of Belarus
M.Myasnikovich, Prime Minister of Tajikistan K.Rasulzoda, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Turkey A.Davutoglu, Foreign Minister of South Korea Yun Byung-se,
Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan A.Kamilov, Foreign Minister of Iran M.Zarif,
Foreign Minister of South Sudan B.Benjamin and Executive Director of CICA
Jianwei Gong.
Minister
D.Bat-Erdene also met with the Minister of National Defense of Turkey Ismet
Yilmaz, where sides discussed on upcoming official visit of latter part to
Mongolia in September 2014.
On the same
day, Defense Minister D.Bat-Erdene held a meeting with the Third Deputy Prime
Minister of Turkey Bulent Arinc, Head of Mongolia-Turkey Intergovernmental
Committee chairing Turkish side. During the bilateral talks, parties exchanged
views on implementation of the Protocol issued following the VII
Mongolia-Turkey Intergovernmental Committee meeting held in Ankara in March
2013.
In the scope of
this Protocol implementation, the Government of Turkey had resolved to allocate
a soft loan of 300 million USD and Minister D.Bat-Erdene proposed to start
projects mutually agreed earlier within this fund, besides, he requested to
cooperate in animal skin & hide processing industry as well as attracting
Turkish investment & technology and to collaborate in renewable energy and
tourism spheres.
In response,
Deputy Premier Bulent Arinc noted that in order to strengthen bilateral
cooperation in economic and trade sectors, affiliated organs should organize a
Meeting between Ministries of Economic Development of the two states.
Mongolia
and Russia to Boost Cooperation in Agricultural Sector
August 29
(infomongolia.com) The First Mongolia-Russia Intergovernmental Meeting of
Cooperation in Agricultural Sector was held in Ulaanbaatar on August 28, 2014.
This Meeting is
considered with its significant importance prior the working visit of President
of the Russian Federation V.V.Putin to Mongolia, which is expected on September
03, 2014.
At the First
Intergovernmental Meeting of Cooperation in Agricultural Sector, parties agreed
to collaborate in the following spheres.
1. Cooperation in the field of veterinary
In this regard,
sides exchanged views on measures being carried out on prevention of animal
infectious diseases. Last year, Russian side provided the grant aid of vaccine
to stop foot-and-mouth disease occurred in Mongolia that had great contribution
to sanify Mongolia’s livestock and within the scope of collaboration to fight
against cross-border infectious diseases of livestock, Mongolian side proposed
to continue the Phase 2 of the program, where the other part pledged to
consider the request shortly.
2. Cooperation in nursery crop industry
Within this
scope of cooperation, sides agreed to implement of program of producing and
acclimatizing new varieties of wheat seeds that suit to Mongolian harsh
climatic conditions with early maturity and disease & drought-resistant. In
order to implement this program, parties negotiated to develop a program by a
joint team of scientists within this year and agreed to start in 2015.
3. Other issues
Sides agreed to
develop joint project to immediately export or import some sorts of seed, food
or other necessary items in case of crop failure or food shortages between the
neighboring provinces and Aimags due to difficulties caused by weather and
other circumstances.
Moreover,
Mongolian side stated to attend in the 3rd Meeting of the Ministers of
Agriculture of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and participate in
the “Agro-Innotech” Exhibition-Fair to take place in Moscow on October 08-10,
2014.
The Second
Mongolia-Russia Intergovernmental Meeting of Cooperation in Agricultural Sector
is planned to be held in Moscow in the second half of 2015.
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