FM reports at “Hour of Minister” meeting

Politics
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2015-12-11 14:05:44

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is amending several laws in order to form a legal basis for ensuring long-term and sustainable operations of the external relations sphere.

It was told by L.Purevsuren, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the “Hour of Minister” weekly meeting on Thursday. A draft amendment to the law on diplomatic service, upgraded for the present needs, will be discussed by the cabinet and will be submitted to parliament this year, he said.

“Since Mongolia does not have a legal environment for regulating the foreign policy yet, we intends to get a bill on ensuring the unity of foreign relations adopted at the autumn session of parliament,” Purevsuren said, adding that a draft amendment to the law on international law is being discussed at parliament.

He also said the Ministry set up a new department--on external economic cooperation with an aim to transmit into a system of realizing the foreign economic ties only through the Ministry. Within an  intensification of the external economic policy, the FM has been appointed the head of the Mongolia-Russia and Mongolia-China intergovernmental commissions for the Mongolian side, "it has a significance in boosting the trade and economic ties with these neighbor countries, in uniting sub-commissions and working groups at the intergovernmental commissions, and in carrying out the policy with the neighbor countries through 'one window", he said.

This Ministry established another department--on foreign propaganda and media that "will advertise  Mongolia throughout the world, support external ties of many sectors of Mongolia in foreign countries by delivering news and information about our culture, history, traditions, custom, sports, sciences and social life". A national programme has been worked out to propagandize Mongolia abroad as well, he said.

Purevsuren underlined an importance of Mongolia’s win at the election of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), collecting votes of 172 countries out of 192. 

 

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