Ulaanbaatar
Cabinet meeting in brief
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ The following decisions were made at the Cabinet’s regular meeting on December 26:
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Next year, 188 projects and activities worth MNT 387.7 billion will be
carried out in the capital city with funding from the State Budget. In rural
areas, 585 projects and events worth 646.7 billion are planned to be undertaken. The
Cabinet also tasked the general budget governors to conduct procurement through
tender.gov.mn, the public procurement system of Mongolia and to promptly announce
the planning, tender offers and the results through the website.
- The Cabinet approved a draft
revision to Competition Law and relevant draft laws and decided to submit them to the Parliament. The draft revision was devised with aims of addressing
the challenges arising when enforcing the law, eradicating contradictions
between the laws and adding some more regulations.
- The Cabinet backed amendments
to the Law on Notaries and decided to submit it to the Parliament.
- ‘General requirements for the state
registration electronic database system, technology and software’ was approved.
The General authority for state registration is providing a total of 86
registration services using 42 programs.
- The Cabinet approved the Asia-Pacific
Regional Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education. Mongolia
has signed agreements on mutually recognizing educational documents with
Turkey, Russia, Austria, China, Cuba, Laos, Poland and Ukraine. In 2018, 1332
Mongolian students enrolled in foreign universities under intergovernmental
agreements or with loan of the Education Loan Fund.
