Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. President of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh received representatives led by Head of the National Council on Language Policy S. Dulam.

During the meeting, the President was given a brief introduction on the works done in connection with the studies on languages and dialects of ethnic groups, terminology, field researches, Mongolian language grammar dictionary, the protection of stone inscriptions, coding of international standards for Mongolian script as well as the works being carried out within the framework of National Program for Mongolian language.

President U.Khurelsukh underscored an importance of paying great attention to the teaching of Mongolian language for children and of giving support to the Mongolian language training of foreign students, Mongolists and foreign diplomats who want to learn the Mongolian language.

At the meeting, the President has instructed the National Council on Language Policy to focus on improving the knowledge and skills of traditional script of the public servants through the implementation of the Program, which is currently being carried out in the Ministry of Culture, in other ministries, development of e-conversion and error-checking applications and introduction of the Unicode of Mongolian script phonetic model. The President added that it is possible to issue an appeal for all to learn the national script and provide related guidance to all levels of organizations through the corresponding authorities.

President also said that it would be effective to issue a decree on the restoration and protection of Mongolia's forgotten and changed geographical names, and to create a national database. He, furthermore, noted that there is a solution to provide a certain amount of tax discount to companies and organizations which use their name and address in both of Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian scripts.

President emphasized that it needs to legalize bilingual education, open a faculty of primary school teacher training class for Mongolian-Kazakh and Mongolian-Tuvan languages at the Mongolian State University of Education, pay attention to the native language education of Mongolian children living abroad, resolve required funding on creating a dictionary of Mongolian language as well as a dictionary of Mongolian language culture.

The National Council on Language Policy under the President has completed developing the State Policy on Language, which consists of nine articles and 74 objectives.

Present at the meeting were Chief of Staff of the Office of the President Ya.Sodbaatar, Culture and religious policy advisor to the President D.Bum-Ochir, Education, science and technological policy advisor Ch.Lodoiravsal,  Minister of Education and Science L.Enkh-Amgalan, Minister of Culture Ch.Nomin, State Secretary S.Oyunbileg.