MP RECEIVES US AMBASSADOR

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A chairman of the Standing Committee on social policy, education, culture and science D.Battsogt MP received Thursday a delegation headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to Mongolia Ms Piper Campbell. The sides focused on issues of people with disabilities. Mr Battsogt gave the visitors information about Mongolians with disabilities. "By 2013, there were 96 thous.325 such people, or three percent of the whole population, and matters concerning them are vital in social care and are the focus of the state policy on human development," he said. The social care for the disabled has been reflected in several laws and regulations, but their realization has some shortcomings, such as deficient implementation of the legal acts and regulations, impotent monitoring, limited involvement of the disabled in social interactions, a lack of resources of educated personnel to interact with them, and immature infrastructure for the disabled, he said. In response, Ms Campbell thanked the MP for his time and introduced to him Mr John Wodatch she was accompanied by. He has been working to improve legal environment for the disabled for 40 years, currently he is advising the Mongolian working group on developing a draft on people with disabilities. Mr Wodatch highly spoke of the current development of the draft law and said it is expected to become a comprehensive law that concerns all matters around the disabled. The working group should learn pros and cons of the development of the same law of the USA, he noted and expressed a satisfaction with Mongolia’s aspiration towards settling these issues. Present at the meeting were J.Batsuuri, G.Bayarsaikhan and L.Erdenechimeg MPs along with US officials.