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Wed, 09/17/2014 - 15:39
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TRIBUTE TO 44-YEAR LEADER TSEDENBAL

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The related bodies and organizations marked September 17 a 98th birthday of Tsedenbal Yumjaa, a former political figure and leader of Mongolia who ruled our socialist country for more than 40 years. Present at the statue to Tsedenbal in Ulaanbaatar were representatives of Mongolian People’s Party, ubs province, where he was born, his brother and sister, and his granddaughter Anastasia Tsedenbal. Secretary-general of MPP J.Munkhbat said that Yu.Tsedenbal "was a deputy-director of referendum commission in 1945, he assured Mongolia’s independence on international level, had the UN accept Mongolia as its member". "His merits are successful determination of border agreements with China in 1963 and with the USSR in 1977, his leadership was great in times of great construction such as cultivation of virgin lands, people full literacy, health". "The historic pride that Mongolia had been acknowledged by the UNESCO as the first country in Asia to reach a total literacy is also thanks to his efforts”. Speeches were also given by Ph.D S.Galsan, Tsedenbal Academy, and Ch.Ulaan,l the Minister of finance. Anastasia said she was born after Tsedenbal’s "retirement from the office of secretary-general of the MPRP in 1984", thus she remembers him as an ordinary, caring grandfather. Anastasia thanked Mongolian government "for respecting Tsedenbal". The 100th anniversary of Tsedenbal in 2016 will be marked, said the MPP official.

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