Mongolia Brief September 16, 2014 Part I
Standing
Committee Head Receives Myanmar Delegation
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) A head of the parliamentary Standing committee on
justice D.Ganbat Monday met a delegation headed by Mr U Win Mra, a chairman of
the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC).
The Standing
committee head underlined that the Mongolia-Myanmar relations and cooperation
have been intensively developing in recent years and spoke about the National
Commission for Human Rights of Mongolia (NCHR).
Thanking the
Mongolian side for the audience, Mr U hoped that the bilateral ties will
expand.
S.Demberel MP
and an office head of the NCHR A.Dashdeleg introduced to the delegation a draft
amendment to the law on NCHR and exchanged some views.
Mr U said the
MNHRC wants to study experience of the Mongolian Commission.
The MNHRC was
established September 5 of 2011 by a notification of the government with a view
to promote and safeguard the fundamental rights of the citizens enshrined in
the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
Mongolia
Establishes Diplomatic Relations with 182nd State of World, Gabonese
Republic
September 16
(infomongolia.com) Within its aim to establish diplomatic relations with all
United Nations member states (193), Mongolia has established diplomatic
relations with the Gabonese Republic in New York City on September 15, 2014.
Setting mutual
aspirations to develop and strengthen friendly relations and cooperation as a
guideline, the two countries agreed to adhere to the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations, the UN Charter and international legal principles and
standards.
The Permanent
Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, Ambassador Mr. Od OCH and
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Gabonese Republic to the United Nations,
Ambassador Mrs. Marianne Odette Bibalou have signed the joint statement to
establish diplomatic relations.
The joint statement
was registered at the UN and the Ambassadors of Mongolia and Gabon have sent
the statement to the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon in order to inform
other UN member states.
The
establishment of diplomatic relations with the Gabonese Republic provides
better opportunities for both countries to develop friendly, peaceful and
cooperative relations in the diplomatic, political, economic, humanitarian and
other fields, moreover, the two states have agreed to support each other within
bilateral and international organizations and that wider opportunities will
open up for bilateral cooperation.
As of September
16, 2014, Mongolia has established diplomatic relations with 182 states of the
world and the EU.
Related:
Diplomatic
Relations Established with Gabon – Montsame,
September 16
Nat’l
Consumer Price Index in August
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) The national consumer price index this August rose by
0.4% against the previous month, by 7.7% against the beginning of this year and
by 13.7% over the same period of the previous year.
This rise
occurred due to 16.8% in education, 1.6% in clothing, footwear and cloth, 1.5%
in housing, water, electricity and fuels increases.
Farming
in Statistics
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) By this September 1, Mongolia harvested 16.6 thousand
tons of potatoes, 12.6 thousand tons of vegetables, and received 495.5 thousand
tons of gross hay and 5.6 thousand tons of handmade fodder.
Compared to the
same period of 2013, hay harvest rose by 272.6 thousand tons or 2.2 times,
handmade fodder--by 2.9 thousand tons or 2.1 times, whereas that of potatoes
declined by 850.0 tons or 4.9%, and of vegetables--by 1,994.5 tons or
13.7%.
Industrial
Production Index
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) In the first eight months of this year, the industrial
production index (2010=100 seasonally adjusted and experimental estimation)
increased by 16.4% from the end of the last year and by 2.0% over the previous
month, and decreased 11.8% against the previous year.
The mining of
products such as gold, molybdenum concentrate with 47%, iron ore, copper
concentrate with 35 %, fluorspar concentrate increased by 1.5-66.6% in the
mining and quarrying sectors, a production of products such as metal
steel, juice, buuz and dumpling, soft drinks, milk, knitted goods, pure water,
kind of sausage, macaroni, ice cream, vacuum windows and doors, sawn wood,
notebooks also rose by 1.9% to 2.4 times in the manufacturing sector against
the previous year.
Freight
and Passengers in Figures
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) In the first eight months of this year, 12,983.5
thousand tons of freight and 2,331.4 thousand passengers (duplicated counting)
were carried by railway transport.
Compared with
the same period of 2013, the amount of the freight carried decreased by 720.8
thousand tons or 5.3%, and the number of the passengers--by 294.3 thousand
people or 11.2%.
The revenue
from the railway transport reached MNT 273.2 billion, decreasing MNT 5.0
billion or 1.8% against the previous year.
Some 2,343.0
tons of freight and 474.4 thousand passengers (duplicated counting) were
carried by air transport. The amount of the freight dropped by 393.8 tons or
14.4%, the number of the passengers-- by 60.4 thousand people or 11.3% against
the previous year.
The revenue
from the air transport reached MNT 156.3 billion, decreasing MNT 3.2 billion or
2.0% against the previous year.
“Natural
Resources and Future Heritage” Forum Approaches
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) A "Natural Resources and Future
Heritage"-themed discussion of a new draft law on natural resources will
run at the "Blue Sky Tower" on this September 18.
It will be
co-organized by a "NextGen"– a young professionals association, and
at initiative of the President and with a support from the Ministry of Finance.
Basic information on this draft will be presented, and opinions and
recommendations from youth will be sounded.
The action is
supposed to be attended by the President’s advisor on Civil involvement and
Economic policy L.Dashdorj, a director of the Resources division of the Debt
Management Department of the Ministry B.Tuguldur, and economist S.Borgil.
Weekly
Bestsellers Named by Internom
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) “Internom” bookstore has introduced the ten best sold
books between 8 and 14 of September. The bestseller list starts with Oxford
(Monsudar) English-Mongolian and Mongolian-English pocket dictionary, and
Oxford (Monsudar) English-Mongolian dictionary, same as the previous list.
They were
followed by “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The
Constitution of Mongolia; “The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion” by
James Fraser, “The Magic” by Rhonda Byrne; Chinese-Mongolian pocket dictionary,
“Sorkhugtani” novel by B.Sarantuay; and “Green-eyed Monk” by Ts.Oyungerel and
J.Falt.
The list
excluded the textbooks, which was sold in the highest number last week, due to
the new academic year.
Ambassador
Attends Int'l Film Festival
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 16 (MONTSAME) Mongolia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to Poland A.Ganbaatar has been invited to the sixth international documentary
film festival dedicated to the anti-communist combat.
The action ran
in Gdynia on September 11-12. The invitation was a high recognition of the
Ambassador's contribution to the fight for the democracy and to a cooperation
between the two countries’ democratic communities, stated the Polish side.
Other attendants included honored guests from France, Hungary, Czech Republic,
Bulgaria, Belarus, Lithuania and the USA.
The documentary
named „Traces of Mongolia” by G.Patsek and A.Golenbevski was presented. It has
been created based on documents gathered in 1999, when officials from the
Polish "Solidarity" labour union visited Mongolia to support the
democratic movement.
After the
festival, the Ambassador also had a meeting with the organizers and was
interviewed by the Polish media.
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