Proposal to hold public hearing on the bill on pastureland and use payment put forth
PoliticsUlaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ Speaker of the State Great Khural G.Zandanshatar met with Gabriella
Spirli, Director of Cooperation and Consul General at Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation (SDC).
At the beginning of the meeting, Ms. Gabriella
Spirli congratulated the Speaker on his appointment, delivering felicitation
message of President of the National Council of Switzerland, Marina Carobbio
Guscetti.
Speaker
G.Zandanshatar stated his view that a reform is in high demand for the
development of parliamentary democracy and pointed out the great importance of having fact-based debates at the
Parliament, and reinventing the governance to e-governance by digitizing the legislative process
and delivering government information and services digitally. "Thus, we would
like to cooperate in the development of parliamentary democracy as the
parliaments of European countries including Switzerland have extensive
experience in this area," said the Speaker.
In turn, Ms.
Gabriella Spirli expressed her hope that the proposals and other issues will be discussed
broadly and cooperation measures will be defined during mutual visits of the
Speakers of the two countries.
Moreover,
the sides exchanged views on the projects being implemented by SDC in Mongolia and
their effects and the SDC Director of Cooperation and Consul General detailed
Speaker G.Zandanshatar on the agency’s projects planned to be implemented in Mongolia on
protecting health of pregnant women and children from air pollution, easing
centralization, and strengthening local governance.
Ms.
Gabriella Spirli also pledged to study the Speaker’s proposal to jointly hold a public hearing on the bill on pastureland and use payment.
Between 2007
and 2016, SDC carried out a total of 15 projects in Mongolia in three main
areas of agriculture and food safety; vocational education and training; and administrative
reform, local government and citizen participation; and in the Dispatch on
Switzerland’s International Cooperation 2017–2020 adopted by the Federal
Council in 2016, the country decided to continue providing development
assistance to Mongolia.