Noyon Mountain to be 'strictly protected'
PoliticsUlaanbaatar/MONTSAME/.
Today’s Cabinet meeting resolved to make Noyon Mountain, located in Mandal soum
of Selenge aimag, to be ‘Strictly protected’, reported N.Tserenbat, Minister of
Environment and Tourism.
Under the
resolution No: 16, dated June 29th 1995, of Selenge aimag’s Citizens’
Representative Khural, 21.6 thousand hectares of the area were taken under
special protection. But, a total of 12 exploration licenses on the area around
Noyon Mountain were issued to five companies since then, he said.
“A working
group headed by Deputy Prime Minister, set up under the government resolution
No:320, will inspect documents of the licenses issued for areas around Noyon Mountain
and grounds of the documents. If there are violations of law, legal actions
will be taken. Beginning today, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism is co-working
with the local authority to prepare relevant documents to upgrade the category ‘special
protection’ of the 21.6 thousand hectares to ‘Strictly Protected’, “said the
Minister.