Ulaanbaatar
PM J.Erdenebat: State organizations will purchase national products
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On August 4, Prime Minister J.Erdenebat, Head of the Cabinet Secretariat J.Munkhbat and Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry P.Sergelen received at the State House the representatives of the agricultural professional unions and NGOs, to have insight into their problems and needs.
During the meeting, the Prime Minister announced that the cabinet has decided and issued direction on banning the state owned organizations from purchasing similar types of goods, which are also produced at home.
The leaders of the Mongolian Meatn Union proposed the Government to rely on the capacity of the professional unions in handling certain problems, and criticized that tangible actions are deficient for increasing the meat exports, although it is usually the topic of verbal discussions. They reminded of the importance of meat industry, and that it is necessary to pay as much attention to the industry as paid to mining. Vice President of the Union M.Tumurbaatar emphasized it is important to immediately adopt a law on health of livestock.
Representatives of the professional unions of forestry sounded their opinion about the lack of general policy, governing the field. They also reminded the leaders of government of the brutal impact of mining in reduction of forests.
Construction sector representatives asked the government to attach focus to the ensuring of coherence between industrial sectors. As a result of good coordination between the industrial sectors, a test is now being conducted on exporting inner linning materials for buildings to Japan, they emphasized.
