“RESPONSIBILITY,MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION” ONLINE MEETING RUNS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag has named the works delaying and strictly obliged all related official to maximize their responsibilities. It happened at the above-named online monthly meeting on last Friday. Th4e PM sounded some interesting statistics, saying, for example, that at all seven meeting, run this year, present were only State Secretaries of the Ministries of Health, of Construction and Urban Development, and of Industry and Agriculture. Vice Ministers of Justice and of Road and Construction missed the meeting six times; the Vice Ministers of Environment and Green Development and of Construction and Urban Development--four times; State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs--five times; State Secretary of the Defense Ministry--four times; and State Secretary of the Economic Development--three times, he noted. "The monthly meeting provides the participants with the latest information about a course of vital works and with directions correlating works of the state bodies, so the cabinet members must make related officials taker part in the meeting," the PM stressed. He went on that considered by the cabinet reports works, aimed at activating the national economy, will be delivered to MPs and the party factions. The cabinet is focusing on a draft budget, he added. Lists of agendas regarding works on the visit of China’s President and the forthcoming visit of the Russian President must be promptly sent to the cabinet for a discussion, he said. The construction of roads that will connect some aimags' centers to the UB city are in delay. An executor of the road from Dornod aimag has not been selected yet after a previous executor had cancelled a contract, the Premier stressed. Roads to Omnogobi and Sukhbaatar aimags are expected to complete by this September/October, but the Dornod's road cannot be finished within this year, the Ministry of Road and Construction said. The Ministry of Energy reported that an annexe of the 4th thermal power station will be put into use by this November 15, and that a first furnace of the “Amgalan” power station of 300MWT will come into use this November. The Premier criticized that the Ministry of Economic Development and the Development Bank of Mongolia are delaying some works. “Some 150 billion Togorg out of 275 billion for the 888 projects are still in commercial banks, you must impose responsibilities upon these banks, they are putting obstacles to the projects on import substitution industry," he underlined. Then he criticized a poor implementation of a programme on forests cleaning and ordered the Ministry of Environment and Green Development to quickly present a course of this programme.