2021-05-13 11:00:04
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. On May 12, Chairman of the State Great Hural G.Zandanshatar
received the Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in Ulaanbaatar Mark
Koenig.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Chairman thanked for
Asia Foundation for its continued support and collaboration in promoting
deliberative democracy in Mongolia. The Chairman expressed his interest in
continuing the cooperation with The Asia Foundation.
The Chairman noted that this session of the State Great
Hural is paying greater attention to the human rights issues. Promoting and
advocacy of human rights situation in Mongolia is an integral part of its
democracy and promoting human rights respected legislative has become a
2021-03-15 17:23:33
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/. State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia opened its regular
spring session of 2021 today.
In his opening speech,
Speaker of the State Great Hural G.Zandanshatar stressed that the package law on Courts
was the major legal document approved by the State Great Hural in the autumn
session of 2020 which aimed at reviving the amendments to the Constitution and
ensuring demand for social justice. He noted that when the law came into
force on January 1, the scandal surrounding the names of some court officials
was causing public outrage. This is a sign of the loss of independence of the
On February 09, Speaker of the Mongolian parliament, State Great Khural G.Zandanshatar issued an ordinance to set up a working team responsible for overseeing the implementation of the 92nd parliamentary resolution of 2019 on ‘ensuring interests of Mongolia in the exploitation of the Oyu Tolgoi gold-copper mine’.