Mongolia Brief August 6, 2014 Part I
Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag Meets with Children from Liaoning Province in Nairamdal International Children's Center
August 5
(infomongolia.com) During his official visit to China in October 2013, the
Prime Minister of Mongolia N.Altankhuyag put forth his warm and welcome
invitation for the Chinese younger generation to Mongolia from the Fushun city
in Liaoning province where the worst and severe flood hit in decade triggered
the large-scale of loss and the number of people suffered across the area in
August 2013.
At the
invitation of the Prime Minister of Mongolia, the one hundred children from
Liaoning province have been spending their summer vacation in
"Nairamdal" International Children’s Center in Mongolia at this
moment; therefore, the Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag met with those children and
handed over the warm gifts to them on August 4th, 2014.
The Prime
Minister has noted “Geographically, Mongolia and China is the neighboring
countries and we must stand together in each and every circumstance. It’s also
good to mention that you fairly overcame the hard times caused by recent
natural calamity in Liaoning province with your strength and willpower. Finding
your strength in difficult times that leads you then to true happiness. So, you
are all very welcome to our motherland Mongolia and build the true friendship
with your Mongolian friends while spending your summer vacation here in
Mongolia. Be a good person, learn more knowledge with wisdom and become
valuable and helpful people to your parents and to your motherland. May all
your wishes come true”.
In the
framework of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
between Mongolia and PR China and the “Mongolia-China Cultural, Arts and
Humanitarian Exchange” program, those one hundred children have been spending
their summer vacation in Mongolia through this summer and this year of 2014 is
the third year of humanitarian exchange program set forth within both
neighboring countries respectively. Since 2009, the children from Sichuan province
and the children from Hulunbuir prefecture, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,
China had also spent their summer vacation in Nairamdal International
Children’s Center through the sphere of effectively running intergovernmental
cooperation between Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China.
Mongolian FM Interviewed by Luxemburg Newspaper
Ulaanbaatar,
August 6 (MONTSAME) The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia Mr L.Bold
Tuesday gave an interview to the "Luxembourg Wort" newspaper.
A journalist
Joseph Lorent asked the Minister about the Mongolia-Luxemburg relations and
cooperation, international situation, and Mongolia's foreign policy. For
example, Mr Bold spoke about a visit of Deputy Prime Minister of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn to Mongolia and his return visit to
Luxembourg.
Mr Bold also
gave the journalist newspaper clippings with his interviews and news published
in Luxembourg newspapers.
EBRD Supports New Cement Plant in Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar,
August 6 (MONTSAME) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
will lend "Senj Sant" USD 65 million for a cement plant project in
Mongolia.
The deal has
been signed at a ceremony by EBRD First Vice President, Phil Bennett. It
follows an equity investment of USD 20 million for a stake in Senj Sant, agreed
in May 2013.
Senj Sant is
building a dry process cement plant in southern Mongolia, around 450 km from
Ulaanbaatar, using state-of-the-art and environmentally-friendly equipment. The
plant will have a production capacity of 3,000 tpd, helping to meet growing
demand for cement in the country. The ERBD financing will help the company to
continue to fund construction, commissioning and operation of the plant, which
is expected to start-up in 2015.
Senj Sant is
owned by Mongolia’s Monpolymet Group, run by a mother-daughter team – CEO Ms
Munkhnasan Narmandakh and Group President Ms Garamjav Tseden. The Group was
founded in 1992 with a focus on gold mining and it has since diversified into
construction, mineral exploration, rehabilitation and construction material
production through the establishment of four sister companies. In 2012, Ms
Garamjav Tseden won the EBRD Women in Business Award for outstanding
achievement in industry.
“The EBRD’s
long-term finance, including equity, is not only helping us build the first
greenfield cement plant in Mongolia using environmentally friendly dry process,
but also supporting the company in raising business standards to international
levels,” said Ms Munkhnasan Narmandakh, CEO of Monpolymet Group, at the signing
ceremony.
Mongolia-Austria first political consultative meeting held
August 6
(news.mn) The first political consultative meeting between Foreign Affairs
Ministries of Mongolia and the Republic of Austria took place at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar on August 4th.
At the
consultative meeting wide range issues of bilateral relations and cooperation,
in particular the strengthening economic relations and cooperation between
Mongolia and Austria, productive use of 40 million euro loan to Mongolia by the
Government of Austria, and mutual visa exemption for holders of
diplomatic and official passport and collaboration in developing
Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia.
Mongolia-Austria
first political consultative meeting parties exchanged opinions on
international and regional issues and underlined the importance of
supporting each other on multilateral cooperation and holding political
consultative meeting between two countries.
Minister of Sport Meets Shooters
Ulaanbaatar,
August 6 (MONTSAME) The Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Ts.Oyungerel
Tuesday received shooters of the national selected team.
The visitors
were O.Gundegmaa, a State Honored Sportswoman and Olympic silver medalist;
Z.Ganbaatar, who has been qualified for the shooting event of the 2016 Summer
Paralympics; and their coaches.
"I
returned back to the training. I noted some changes in the shooting competition
rules but I continue exercising. So I got 21 points out of 25 in the two series
of World Cup. In previous World Cup tournaments, 16-17 points were quite enough
to reach first places. At the World Cup series, I suffered from panics in the
final’s beginning due to the rules’ alteration, but I managed to win a
medal," said Gundegmaa who grabbed a gold medal in the ISSF World Cup
series.
After this the
Minister and the athletes considered urgent problems concerning training places
and supply of pistols and bullets. A lack of places for the shooters to train
is still one of the major problems, "plus, we do not have enough electric
devices and advanced techniques", said the coaches.
Another problem
is the bullet supply. "A draft amendment to the law on fire weapons has
been drawn up, but parliament has not discussed it yet, if the draft is not
approved, our trainings will certainly worsen, in general, there is no legal
environment for the shooting sports," the coaches told the Minister.
Professional
federations sent to this draft their proposals on importing concrete amount of
bullets and guns for this sport and on altering a clause which prohibits under
21 people from using fire weapons. "It affects our young promising
shooters," the coaches explained.
In response,
the Minister said that a bill is being worked out on domestic functions,
operation and management of the Center of Technical Sports because it has
transmitted to a state ownership.
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