Ulaanbaatar
MP Kh. Bulgantuya participates in an online meeting of APA's Standing Committee on Budget and Planning
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. An online meeting of the Standing
Committee on Budget and Planning of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) was
held on August 4, 2021 at 3:00 pm Ulaanbaatar time. Member of the State
Great Hural Mrs. Kh.Bulgantuya represented the State Great Hural
(Parliament) of Mongolia at the meeting.
The online meeting was chaired by Mr. Lyashchenko AV,
Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the APA
Group in the State Duma, and was attended by 35 members of parliaments from 12
countries.
At this meeting, the issue of setting the membership fee for
the member countries of the Assembly was discussed. Participants discussed
how to improve operations and organization, budget transparency and efficient
management of financial resources of the Assembly.
It should be noted that the Asian Parliamentary Assembly,
established in 2006, has 44 members and 14 observers. Asian countries need
to work closely together in many fields, to establish peace and security in the
region, to stabilize the status of Asian countries in the international arena,
to promote democracy, to increase the role of Asian parliaments in world
affairs, to balance the economy and trade. The APA is an important dialogue
platform for expanding multilateral cooperation among Asian countries in the
areas of development, poverty, corruption, human rights violations, human
trafficking and the fight against terrorism.
Members of the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia have been
actively participating in the APA sessions, reported by the Media and
Public Relations Department of the State Great Hural.
