Nat’l council for ASEM Summit meets

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Very first meeting of the national council took place on Tuesday for ensuring preparation works for the 11th Summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to be held 2016 in Ulaanbaatar. The national council’s meeting discussed a plan of the preparation works and then set up a working group. Pursuant to a decree of the President, the national council was set up on December 30, 2014, with responsibility for preparing and running this measure and for providing it with proper directions. The Premier Ch.Saikhanbileg has been appointed as the council’s chair, being obliged to establish working groups and services, to adopt a working plan, and to introduce to the cabinet its implementation every month. His deputies will be the Foreign Minister L.Purevsuren and the head of the Presidential Office P.Tsagaan. The council will also have members such as the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Road and Transportation; the head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government; the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city; an advisor to the President on security and foreign policy; an advisor to the President on public relations policy; a chief advisor to the Speaker; an advisor to the PM; an advisor to the PM on public relations policy; a working service chair of the National Security Council (NSC). The State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been appointed the national council’s secretary.