P.TSAGAAN PARTICIPATES IN INT’L CONFERENCE AND BUSINESS FORUM

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Head of the Presidential Office P.Tsagaan took part in international conference themed “Eurasia week–improving the competitiveness of Eurasian region”, organized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) November 24-27 in Paris of France. With the key mission of promoting policies that improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world, the OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. This time the conference brought together high level officials from 34 member states, 13 Central Asian countries and East Europe, and delegates of the world’s biggest entities. The OECD programme on improving a competitiveness of Eurasia, which launched in 2008, has involved Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia and Ukraine. Mr Tsagaan also attended a business forum titled “Business opportunities in Eurasia” to deliver a report themed “The economic competitiveness of Mongolia, policy on specializing the economy, difficulties and lessons”. Then he introduced Mongolia’s initiatives and experiences in procurement actions of NGOs and the state policy. During the business forum, Mr Tsagaan ran meetings with Mr Marcos Bonturi, Director of the OECD Global Relations Secretariat, and Mr Antonio Somma, Head of the OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme. Mr Tsagaan underlined an importance of the OECD’s cooperation, experiences of developmental organizations and assistance for successfully implementing the state and economic reforms since 1990. He said Mongolia wants to realize four projects on strengthening a sustainable competitiveness of Mongolia’s mining sector, fortifying the ties and partnership between the state and the private sector, specializing the economy, and on designing a developmental policy on the small- and middle-sized productions.