Ulaanbaatar
Cabinet meeting in brief
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The cabinet meeting on Monday decided to convey some proposals to the President of Mongolia, an initiator of bills on the national security, on the Armed Forces, on defense and Armed Forces, on military service, on legal status of servicemen, on state and official secrets, and on information security.
- Some measures will be taken to in conjunction with the results of state examinations in archives of documents concerning environmental issues and in the related state bodies.
- A composition of the council was approved as an appendix with responsibilities to provide the national programmes on promoting Mongolia abroad and on World Mongolians with general management and regulations. These programmes were adopted by governmental resolutions in 2016.
- The cabinet discussed results of the official visit of the South Korean PM Hwang Kyo-ahn to Mongolia December 15-17 of 2015, and ordered the FM to submit the matter to the National Security Council (NSC).
- A list of measures and actions was approved, including an organization of international military exercises and a participation of Mongolian peacekeepers in international operations in 2016.
- The cabinet discussed bills on ratifying credit agreements to be established between the government of Mongolia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on realizing projects on diversifying the economy through backing the credit guarantee system and creating job places, and on upgrading the methods of ensuring hygiene of plants and livestock as well as food safety.
- The cabinet backed a bill on exempting from taxes new tractors, combine harvesters, machines, flour and fertilizer factory equipment, forestry facilities and pesticides. The bill will be submitted to parliament.
