Cabinet meeting in brief

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The cabinet meeting on March 1 backed a draft amendment to the law on stamp duty. It will be submitted to parliament. - A list of international meetings, forums and measures to be organized in 2016-2018 in Mongolia was approved by the cabinet. - Located in Sukhbaatar district’s 7th khoroo (smallest administrative unit in the capital city), a five-storey building, registered under the General Authority of Archive, was transferred to the Marshall Service. - The cabinet backed a draft amendment to the law on natural plants and decided to submit it to parliament. - Head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government S.Bayartsogt highlighted final results of realization of resolutions and governmental decisions by 2015. This report was followed by another one by the Deputy PM Ts.Oyunbaatar about an implementation course of a governmental resolution on approving of a list of projects and measures to be done in 2016 with the state budget money. - A rule of the Regulatory Committee of Energy was reapproved. - The Minister of Finance B.Bolor was authorized to allot money from the governmental reserves for the participation in international forum of geology and mining investors that will run this March 6-9 in Toronto of Canada. Mongolia is supposed to attend a business forum to promote its mining industry and to present its biggest investment projects. - The cabinet approved Mongolia-France intergovernmental agreements on cooperating in the education, culture, sciences and technical spheres, and on implementing a joint scholarship program. - The cabinet backed a Mongolia-Italy intergovernmental agreement on the cooperation in defense sector, and decided to have the PM issue an order on authorizing an official to sign the agreement. - D.Uuriintuya was appointed the head of the Authority of Minerals. - An acting head of the General Agency for Specialized Inspection (GASI) Ts.Sharavdorj was appointed the general inspector of nuclear and radioactive monitoring.