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MONTSAME DAILY NEWS

Date: 
Wednesday, 01 February 2017

Wednesday, February01, 2017. № 2032 (3045)4)

LAW TO COMBAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COMES INTO EFFECT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Start­ing today, the revised Law to Combat Domestic Violence comes into effect. The Parliament approved the law in December, which identifies domestic violence as a crime, making it sub­ject to criminal punishment and pro­viding for a more comprehensive re­sponse to the domestic violence and for integrated victim services.

The fact says that 94 persons have died and 4102 persons have been in­jured for the last six years due to domes­tic violence and besides, the number of registered cases of violent actions tends to increase year by year behind closed doors.

New law aims to enhance the victim protection system by placing the safety of victims first; establishing a team of specialists to provide counseling; pro­tecting people from repeated violence and abuse; and strengthening coopera­tion among relevant agencies. The law also extends the mandate of protection for victims of domestic violence to shel­ter houses, social welfare services, and psychological and other health care pro­viders.

The revised law requires every citi­zen to report child abuse and domestic violence. For example, neighbors are obliged to inform on violation cases and those who do not report the vio­lence, will face fines. The scope of law enforcement does not limit relations be­tween family members, it also involves the divorced and cohabitants.

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AMBASSADOR OF TURKEY PRES­ENTS CREDENTIALS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On January 31, Ambassador Extraor­dinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to Mongolia AhmetYazal presented his Letter of Credence to the President of Mongo­lia Ts.Elbegdorj.

Following the ceremony, President Elbegdorj held a brief meeting with the Ambassador. President Elbegdorj con­gratulated the newly accredited Ambas­sador and wished success in his mis­sion to enhance the mutual relations between the both countries.

The President noted his satisfaction with the development of the bilateral re­lations in many spheres and highlighted the role of the Turkish International Co­operation and Development Agency / TIKA/ in this direction.

The President of Mongolia noted that when he was the Prime Minister, Mon­golian and the Turkish sides worked on a joint project to restore historical heri­tage sites of the ancient Turkic tribes in the Orkhon valley, Mongolia.

Concluding the meeting, Ambas­sador AhmetYazal promised to put ef­fort to deepen the mutual relations and cooperation between Mongolia and the Republic of Turkey.

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PM COMMENDS SENIOR ECONO­MIST’S DEVOTION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Prime Minister J.Erdenebat received State Honored Economist B.Osorgarav who initiated ‘Helping Mongolia overcome economic difficulties’ campaign on Jan­uary 31.

On January 30, the senior economist held a press conference to inform the public of his initiative, and to announce that he would donate MNT 10 million, 10 horses and a gold ring to the Gov­ernment to help recover the economy. The State Honored Economist has dedi­cated 50 years of his life to the country.

Following the economist’s call for join­ing the initiative, MP B.Delgersaikhan announced that he would be donating MNT 100 million yesterday, January 31.

According to B.Osorgarav’s estima­tion, if every citizen donates MNT 1000- 2894, MNT 214 billion 692 million can be collected. And if government higher officials including MPs each donate MNT 20 - 100 million, and NGOs and other entities donate MNT 2-2.5 million, Mongolia can repay its debts and recov­er its economy.

The Prime Minister said, “There’s a Mongolian proverb that says, ‘Better break your bone than name’, and the name of our country is what’s most im­portant to us. As such, there was a time when I said at a meeting that ‘In order to overcome the economic difficulty, and save the name of our country, and if necessary, I will turn to the people of Mongolia without shame’. However, as of today, no such situation has unveiled itself before us. Mongolia can repay its debt, and overturn the economic de­cline”.

“Most importantly, I truly respect your patriotic spirit and initiative to call for na­tional integrity”, the Prime Minister high­lighted.

The senior economist expressed that he would continue with the ini­tiative which has allegedly gathered support from more than approximate­ly 100 thousand people since MP B.Delgersaikhan’s announcement.

Kh.Aminaa

MAYOR ISSUES ORDINANCE ON TSAGAANSAR TRAFFIC

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ During the few weeks preceding the celebra­tion of Lunar New Year, traffic jam in Ulaanbaatar escalates drastically due to increased traffic from provinc­es and to major malls and shopping centers. In an early attempt to con­trol the traffic jam during Lunar New Year which falls this month, Mayor of Ulaanbaatar S.Batbold issued an or­dinance today, February 1.

The ordinance was introduced by Colonel B.Batbold, Head of Traffic Reg­ulation Division of Ulaanbaatar Traffic Police Department. In accordance with the ordinance, vehicles with license plate numbers ending in even digits are allowed to engage in road traffic on Sat­urdays, February 11 and 18 whereas those with odd numbers are allowed on Sundays, February 12 and 19.

In addition, expanded markets of meat and dairy products will be set up in 6 central districts of Ulaanbaatar so as to reduce traffic jam to the biggest markets, and save time and fuel.

The ordinance also authorizes that there will be no traffic restriction based on license plate number on the first three days of Lunar New Year, namely February 28, 29 and 30.

On the days with traffic restrictions, public transportation will be accessible to distant destinations such as Naran­tuul or KhuchitShonkhor markets.

Kh.Aminaa

UB CITY TO COOPERATE WITH DUTCH COMPANY FOR BETTER SOLUTION TO PARKING

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On Fab­ruary 1, P.Bayarkhuu, Deputy Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city in charge of infrastruc­ture and Ger district area development signed a Memorandum of Understand­ing on cooperation with Weiss Co.Ltd. on introducing advanced technology to public transport of the capital city.

The MoU sets out to improve the sit­uation in Ulaanbaatar of roads, car park­ings and public transport. MrBayarkhuu shared, after signing the document, that a project named “Smart Parking” will be realized and that a working group will be formed immediately to launch imple­mentation.

Weiss’s advisory council president, Mr Paul Staartjes expressed his confi­dence in successful cooperation.

B.Amarsaikhan

CONSTRUCTION OF TEACHING HOSPITAL TO COMMENCE THIS JULY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A.Tsogtsetseg, Minister for Health re­ceived Masato Takaoka, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Mongolia yesterday, Janu­ary 31, to exchange views on coop­eration in health sector.

The Minister began, “Mongolia’s health sector has an experience of closely working together with Japan”, mentioning health projects and pro­grams that are being implemented in cooperation with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The Minister also touched upon two projects to be realized in the near future, firstly the one to provide medical equip­ments worth MNT 11.8 billion to hospi­tals of 32 soums of 3 aimags this year, and the one to build a teaching hospital affiliated with the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences next year.

Ambassador Takaoka said, “The construction works of the teaching hos­pital will commence this July. I hope that the hospital will be a big contribution to Mongolian health sector and services”.

The Ambassador also mentioned about the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Mongolia which falls this year.

Moreover, agenda of the meeting included the introduction of Japanese judo acuclosure to Mongolia, ‘Young leader’ program in cooperation with Na­goya University of Japan and other co­operation projects and programs.

Kh.Aminaa

SHORT TERM GOVERN­MENT SECURITIES BENEFIT BUY­ERS, BUT…

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Government bonds with less than one year term are in high demand on the market. A total of MNT834 billion of government bonds were traded on primary market, 98.3 per cent of which had terms for 12-52 weeks or less than one year.

The interest rate of the Government securities, being higher than savings’interest rate, attracts investment, as it allows earning high profit within a short term. During trading of this week, the Finance Ministry offered 39-week bond with 18.8 per cent interest rate and traded MNT15 billion bonds. Though it is beneficial to buyers, interest rate of Government retail securities to domes­tic market has grown significantly. The interest rate is higher than the 10.8 per cent interest rate of the bond is­sued to international market last time in April 2016 and even three fold the Chinggis bond’s interest rate. Since the start of 2017, Government securities of MNT33.8 billion have been sold in four trades.

In 2016, the Government raised MNT280.4 billion bonds from domes­tic market. A total MNT834.1 billion of government securities have been sold at the Mongolian Exchange Stock since the first release in November 2014. The largest securities of MNT510 billion in value were released in 2015 in the pri­mary market.

Economists predict, an additional debt of MNT2.4 trillion will be created in 2017, out of which MNT1.7 trillion would be domestic debts. During the parlia­mentary discussion of the state budget of 2017, some economists warned that 70 per cent of all expected new loans would be spent for basic repayment of the Government loans, particularly 50 per cent of it would be allocated for ba­sic repayment of securities released on international market.

In a time, when foreign investors’ trust has weakened and national econ­omy faces difficulties, the most possible buyers of the Government securities would be commercial banks. 98.2 per cent of the bonds issued in 2016 were bought by domestic investors and 1.8 per cent by foreign investors while in 2015, foreign investors’ purchase occu­pied one per cent.

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COOPERATIVES-BEST OPTION FOR JOB CREATION AND INDUS­TRIALIZATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Today, the 5th forum of National cooperatives was organized under the theme “Busi­ness development gate for coopera­tives” by the Ministry of Food, Agricul­ture and Heavy Industry, Mongolian National Confederation of Cooperatives together with cooperatives’ unions and cooperative supporting organizations.

Minister of Food, Agriculture and Heavy Industry P.Sergelen noted that new cooperative movement has been developing for over the past 20 years, changing its characteristics and basic principles dramatically compared to co­operatives in socialist regime.

“- Cooperative development is ben­eficial proper option to create many jobs in short term with minimum cost and boost industrialization in a country like Mongolia, which has low population and small market. Therefore, the Govern­ment approved ‘Social scale program to develop cooperatives-II’ and has been implementing it with a view to improve collaboration between cooperatives and supportive institutes, increase coop­eratives’ contribution to society through creating favorable legal and economic environment, to develop small and me­dium enterprises intensively and im­prove competitiveness.”

There are over 4200 cooperative na­tionwide. During the forum, some rep­resentatives of cooperatives expressed their appreciation that delivering incen­tives for animal skin, wool and cash­mere through cooperatives have been effective way to support cooperatives and favor for cooperatives’ participation in stock exchange trade.

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MONGOLIAN SUPPLIERS ACCOUNT FOR 83 PERCENT OF OT UNDER­GROUND MINE CONTRACTS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Dur­ing the OyuTolgoi Underground De­velopment Supplier Forum held on January 31, OyuTolgoi LLC reports that some 83 percent of all of its con­tracts were made with Mongolian companies, which equal to USD 760 million.

By the end of 2016, the company has worked with 990 suppliers, 623 of which are Mongolian. In other words, those Mongolian companies are managing 62 percent of all operational procurements.

The Supplier Forum, held at Shangri- La Hotel of Ulaanbaatar, attracted over 1,200 representatives of 675 national and international companies.

Since 2010, OyuTolgoi LLC has spent more than USD 6.0 billion for pay­ment to contractors, royalties and sala­ries. The company paid USD 279 million to contractors and USD 210.6 million of taxes in 2016 only, said the acting CEO Stephen Jones.

Last year, OyuTolgoi purchased USD 371.5 million of goods and servic­es, USD 69 million of which were pro­cured in Umnugobi province. A total of 6,244 jobs was provided directly within the sub-contracts and more than 35 thousand workplaces were promoted by the OT operations.

The underground mine is preserving 80 percent of the extractable reserves of OyuTolgoi.

B.Amarsaikhan

TIKA RENDERS AMBULANCE TO KHOVDAIMAG

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On Feb­ruary 1, the Turkish International Co­operation and Development Agency (TIKA) rendered a fully equipped ambu­lance car to the Department of Health of Khovdaimag.

Ch.Uranchimeg, Deputy Mayor in charge of social policy and B.Amarjargal, head of the Department of Health of the province, who were working in Ulaan­baatar received the assistance and held a meeting with the delegates of the TIKA and exchanged views on medical cooperation and so on.

Previously, the TIKA has presented ambulance cars to the authorities of the Departments of Health in Khovd, Bayan-Ulgii and Gobi-Altai provinces of Mongolia. The ambulances are devoted to the health care service for people liv­ing in isolated areas of the region.

The Department of Health of Khovd province is aiming to provide new am­bulances to the hospitals of five soums. For the time being, Altai and Uench­ with ambulances.

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WORLD VISION DELEGATES VISIT TUV AIMAG

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A dele­gation headed by Philip Ewert, National Director at World Vision Mongolia vis­ited Tuvaimag.

During the visit, delegates discussed the result of the project implemented in the province and the World Vision Mongolia and Governor’s Office of Tuv province established a memorandum of cooperation for 2017-2021.

Since the World Vision opened its office in Tuv province in 2004, it has been successfully carrying-out a num­ber of projects and programs directed at boosting economy, education and chil­dren and promoting family income.

In the last 5 years, 9 types of proj­ects and programs worth MNT 3.2 bil­lion were implemented successfully in the province.

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HOUSING PRICE FALL BRINGS OP­PORTUNITIES TO INVESTORS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mon­golia’s construction sector consti­tutes about 4.0 percent of the nation­al GDP. The sector have had its ups with annual growth of 10-16 percent and is now having its downs impact­ed by the restrictions in connection with the housing mortgage loans.

Only a quarter of Mongolia’s 859.1 thousand families are living in housing apartments connected to central heat­ing and power networks. Also, some 204.5 thousand families (40 thousand a year approximately) in Ulaanbaatar are expected, pursuant to the government’s action plan, to move from Ger districts to housing apartments in the next five years, according to a study provided by the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development.

Currently, the construction compa­nies are managing their marketings, by receiving old apartments or cars as ad­vance payment and offering more viable options to their customers. Some com­panies are taking no pre-payment at all and instead are giving out apartments on conditions with monthly lease.

Nevertheless, the current drop of properties’ price may be an opportunity for businesspeople who are interested in investing in the construction sector of Mongolia.

B.Amarsaikhan

NATIONAL AIR POLLUTION REDUC­TION PROGRAM TO BE IMPLE­MENTED

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister J.Erdenebat has ap­proved an order to establish a work­ing group responsible for the imple­mentation of the recommendation on “Air pollution of Ulaanbaatar city” by the National Security Council.

The working group is composed of Governor of the Capital and Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city, state secretaries of all ministries and heads of relevant agen­cies. The head of the working group, D.Oyunkhorol, Minister of Environment and Tourism presented about the ar­rangements carried-out by the Minis­try of Environment and Tourism to the Prime Minister on January 31.

The working group had finished for­mulating a draft of the “National Program to reduce air pollution”, which will be implemented in two stages, short /2017- 2018/ and mid /2018-2021/ terms.

The program envisages cessation of raw coal consumption of households and public entities, decreasing the num­ber of air polluting sources by 80 per­cent and reducing the amount of par­ticles and sulfur dioxides in the air by 50 percent.

The Environment Minister continued to say “Currently, the working group is conducting a research with a view to establish “Information center for eco-friendly technologies” in Bayanzurkh, Sukhbaatar and Chingeltei districts to promote advanced technologies de­crease air pollution to the public”.

Also, in pursuance to a direction of the Prime Minister, the working group has been drawing up amendments to corresponding laws and taking public suggestions online in order to indicate the responsibilities concerning environ­mental protection, air pollution reduction and rehabilitation and increase public participation, apart from a bill on estab­lishing a fund against air pollution.

From February 1, air pollution moni­toring will be organized in Ger district areas to examine the burning wastes of households below the poverty level.

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BALLET DANCER D.ALTANKHUYAG PERFORMS IN JAPAN

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of dip­lomatic relations between Mongolia and Japan, Mongolian Honored Artist, ballet dancer and Cultural Envoy of Mongo­lia D.Altankhuyag performed in “Swan Lake” ballet as a special guest at the New National Theatre, Tokyo at the in­vitation of the Japanese Tokyo Komaki ballet company on January 28-29.

In connection to the 45th anniversa­ry, which is being marked this year, the Tokyo Komaki ballet company will per­form in Ulaanbaatar next June.

The Tokyo Komaki ballet was estab­lished in 1946 and performed the “Swan Lake” ballet for the first time in Japan. In 2002 and 2012, the “Tokyo Komaki” ballet played in Ulaanbaatar on the oc­casion of the 30th and 40th anniversa­ries of the diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Japan.

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BANDY TEAM TO COMPETE IN ASIAN GAMES

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On February 1, Mongolian bandy team returned home after their historic winning of bronze medal at the 2017 Bandy World Championship held in Sweden on January 24-29, and was received by Ts.Sharavjamts, Head of Authority of Physical Culture and Sports of Mongolia.

The Authority of Physical Culture and Sports of Mongolia expressed its support for the bandy team which has brought Mongolia’s first medal from a world championship in team winter sport. The next stop for the bandy team is 2017 Asian Winter Games, which is to be hosted in Sapporo, Japan on February 19-26.

In the preliminary round of the cham­pionship, Mongolian team won their matches against Japan (10:2), Hungary (9:5) and Ukraine (9:6), thus making it to play-off. In the quarter-finals, Mongolia played Netherlands to triumph by 6:2; and in the semi-finals, Mongolia lost to Canada by 3:4. In the finals, Mongolia won Japan by 6:5 to win bronze medal.

Mongolian national bandy team com­petes in ‘B’ division of the world cham­pionship alongside 9 other countries including Canada, People’s Republic of China, Czech Republic, Hungary and Japan.

The Mongolian team took 4th place last year in the same division of the championship. The Bandy World Cham­pionship has been organized since 1957 and Mongolia has participated 9 times since 2006.

Kh.Aminaa

FEBRUARY 01 EVENTS

Following events are expected on Wednesday.

10 AM: Ulaanbaatar Mayor’s order for Lunar New Year to be introduced at Press center of the city administration.

10 AM: City social welfare office’s “Coming home” program for the home­less to be introduced at Sukhbaatar dis­trict office.

10 AM: Minister S.Byambatsogt meets with organizer of the “Little air” donation campaign to install air filters in hospitals.

11 AM: Mongolian bandy world championship bronze medalist team holds press briefing at Central sports palace.

11 AM: Education and Evaluation Center holds press briefing regarding the registration for general admission exam at “Mongolian News” information center.

11 AM: Press conference for physi­cal education and sports industry’s top scientists’ contest to be held at the Physical Culture and Sports Authority’s conference room.

11.30 AM: Memorandum of coop­eration to be signed between General Authority for Intellectual Property and State Registration and Golomt bank at the authority office.

2 PM: “Orgil” resort to hold “Open door” event at the resort.

At State House:

9 AM: Standing committee on Econ­omy’s session to be held at Chinggis Khaan Hall.

9 AM: Standing committee on Peti­tion’s session to be held at Sukhbaatar Hall.

2 PM: Standing committee on Secu­rity and foreign policy’s session takes place at Chinggis Khaan Hall.

2 PM: Standing committee on State budget’s session takes place at Sukh­baatar Hall.

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