Prime Minister J.Erdenebat visits MONTSAME Agency

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On December 8, Prime Minister J.Erdenebat visited our agency to get familiar with the daily operations in person. MONTSAME is turning 96 next year. During the meeting of Prime Minister with the agency staff, Vice Director of MONTSAME Sh.Batbold and representatives of three generations of workers shared their opinions and put forward their requests to the Government. Editor-in-Chief of the Mongol Messenger weekly newspaper G.Purevsambuu, who has been working in the agency for the past 37 years, underlined MONTSAME remains as the fount of generations of outstanding journalists and, most importantly, the best translators in Mongolia. While noting that, due to financial and political situations in Mongolia, activities of newspapers in Russian and Chinese languages had been discontinued for certain periods of time and had been restored, MONTSAME has been maintaining full accoplishment of its duties of promoting Mongolia on the international arena and connecting the domestic audience with the whole world. He also highlighted the importance of sophisticating the human resource policy for the young and skillful personnel to stay in the agency for longer period and train the new cadres. Domestic News Desk’s reporter B.Ariunzaya asked the government to attach more importance to giving some privilege to the agency’s reporters, as it is the most reliable source of information on Mongolia. Editor-in-Chief of the News Abroad Desk Ya.Indra noted that MONTSAME News Agency has been reporting about Mongolia by sticking to its many years of principle in promoting and building an image Mongolia to the world audience in a comprehensive and systematic manner. Prime Minister J.Erdenebat remarked that it is indeed important to cooperate with the longest running government news agency in promoting the politics and economy of the country. Mongolia, as a developing small power, faces a serious demand to present itself to the world, especially, the most potential sectors of its economy, he stated. The head of Mongolian government pledged to work more closely with the news agency and promised to increase the funding for technological renovations. After wishing the best of success to the Agency’s staffers, the Prime Minister went through the newsrooms and printing house. MONTSAME publishes weekly newspapers in English, Russian, Chinese and Japanese languages and in traditional Mongolian script. Montsame.mn website offers daily news in Mongolian, Russian and English languages.