Ulaanbaatar
National Statistics Office of Mongolia Elected as Governing Council Member of the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific
Society
Ulaanbaatar, April 28, 2025 /MONTSAME/. The National Statistical Committee of Mongolia participated in the 81st Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific held in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 21- 25, 2025, and Mongolia was elected as a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP).
Out of 12 countries nominated for the SIAP
Governing Council election, China, South Korea, India, Malaysia,
Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia were elected and will guide
the policies and activities of the council from 2025 to 2028. SIAP, a professional
statistics training center for government officials and others working on statistics, has provided long, medium, and short-term training and
seminars to more than 660 employees of the statistical agency of Mongolia since
1990.
Mongolia was elected as a member of the SIAP Governing
Council from 2000-2003 and from 2019-2022.
