Parliamentarians take part in World Assembly for Women

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Representing the government of Mongolia, a member of parliament M.Batchimeg and the Minister of Population Development and Social Welfare S.Erdene MP participated in the World Assembly for Women (WAW) held August 28-29 in Tokyo, Japan. The WAW Tokyo was held for the second time by an initiative of the Prime Minister of Japan under a policy “A Society where Women Shine”, continue to be one of the priority issues of Abe Administration. Our delegation has held a meeting with Mr Shinzo Abe, the Premier of Japan, and then delivered speeches at sub-meetings of the Assembly. This Assembly brought together some 150 leader women such as Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women; Ms Helen Clark, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme; Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia and Nobel Prize laureate.