PREMIER PARTICIPATES IN ILC SESSION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag Thursday returned home after the 103rd session of the International Labour Conference (ILC), which ran May 28-June 12 in Geneva of Switzerland under a topic "Progress with jobs-Employment-2014". Within the session, the Premier attended introduction meetings of the Sustaining competitive and responsible enterprise (SCORE) and the Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) programmes, being implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO), and exchanged views with many on involving Mongolia in these programmes. While meeting with Mr Guy Rider, the ILO Director-General, our PM noted that the ILO's support in the implementation of Mongolia’s social and economic reforms policy significantly contributed to updating and refining the legal basis of labour relations and to making reforms in salary and social welfare systems. He also highly spoke projects and programmes realized with the ILO support for forwarding a transmitting to the official economy from unofficial and for strengthening a monitoring over the labour sector. The Premier said Mongolia needs to empower its workforce in order to specialize the economy through promoting of a trilateral social relations, attracting investments, focusing on the mining growth's impact on the country’s development. The government is paying special attention to a support of small- and medium-sized productions, the Premier said and stressed an importance of the cooperation with the ILO in this matter.