TS.OYUNGEREL MP LEGS AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Within her participation in the 4th World Conference of Parliament Speaker, a member of parliament Ms Ts.Oyungerel Wednesday visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, USA. The parliamentarian has met Dr John Flynn, Dean of the Richard Gilder Graduate School affiliated the Museum. During the meeting, Ms Oyungerel noted that in the scope of approaching the centennial anniversary of an expedition arrived in Mongolia led by American anthropologist Roy Chapman Andrews /1922/, a joint commission should make open to public regarding an implementation of the agreement to repatriate findings discovered in Mongolia back in 1920s. The agreement--established between Roy Chapman Andrews and Mongolian authorities in 1924--cites to return to the Government of Mongolia one item of each group of findings including dinosaurs eggs, bones and fossil mammals. In addition, two copies of films and photos captured in Mongolia; and to collaborate on founding an “Orgoo” museum. According to the agreement, all findings were agreed to deploy under scientific purposes only. Consequently, Dr John Flynn promised to convey the MP’s request to Head of the American Museum of Natural History and respond shortly. When serving as the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Mongolia, Ms Oyungerel administered to repatriate over 400 findings and fossils including Tyrannosaurus bataar, a 70-million-year-old dinosaur.