Ulaanbaatar
Diplomatic personnel to serve for four years
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Today, Parliamentary plenary session passed amended law on Diplomatic service. To improve unity of state foreign policy and its activities, the amended law restricts governmental and local administrative organizations to open their representative office abroad or appoint representatives.
Appointment term of diplomatic mission is defined to be four years. One year is added to the term of service considering international standard and as it takes time for diplomatic officials to arrange things, establish good relationship with officials of the relevant country and activate actions.
To improve social guarantee of diplomats, it is enacted that the Government would renew salary of diplomatic personnel abroad every three years, kindergarten fee for diplomats’ children would be covered from state budget, and working place of diplomat’s spouse would be kept.
These actions need to be taken, considering that professional young diplomats tended to move to private sector due to uncompetitive state of salaries and social welfare in government services. Some USD300 thousand will be required to finance kindergarten fees, however it would not be additional expenditure to the state budget, explained Minister of Foreign Affairs Ts.Munkh-Orgil. Savings from operational costs of four diplomatic missions, which are to be closed in June and cuts of employees in some diplomatic missions planned to be spent for it.
