Ulaanbaatar
Standing committee backs draft new version of law on int’l treaties
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its meeting on Wednesday, the parliamentary Standing committee on security and foreign policy discussed and then backed by a majority a draft new wording of the law on international treaties.
Adopted in 1993, the current law on international treaties has been altered twice, in 1998 and 2012. The draft initiator, the Minister of Foreign Affairs L.Purevsuren said this law should be amended again. “The present law does not say anything about methods of establishing international treaties approved by the Vienna Convention on International Laws, plus there are many problems such as delivering distorted information due to poor understanding about international treaties," he explained, adding the Standing committee recommended working out the draft new wording.
During the discussion, S.Oyun MP asked who would bear a responsibility for possible problems caused by wrong translation. “The draft law reflects a clause on a monitoring over the translation. For example, multilateral treaties or contracts shall be co-translated by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall put a general control," replied N.Ankhbayar, a head of the Human Rights Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not be in charge of translating treaties of every topic, it is a work of Ministries, they must translate treaties themes of which relate to the duties," he added.
