VICE SPEAKER MEETS OSCE DELEGATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Vice chairman of the State Great Khural (parliament) M.Enkhbold Wednesday received Mr Janez Lenarcic, a director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, and Mr Bostjan Sirnik, a consultant to the OSCE/ODIHR. Mr Lenarcic underlined that the OSCE's observation over the 2013 Presidential election of Mongolia was an important action to fortify the Mongolia-OSCE cooperation, and said they arrived to present the official final report on this election. He hoped that Mongolia will utilize recommendations, listed in the report, in considering related draft laws, and said that several measures should be taken further in election matters. The Vice Speaker thanked the OSCE for supporting Mongolia in forming democratic elections and said Mongolia will focus on a realization of the recommendations. He also emphasized that this report will play its role in bringing our elections' legal environment into international standards. The report will be passed to a working group in charge of formulating a general law on the elections of President, parliament and localities, he added. Mr Lenarcic advised the Mongolian side to set up a special service that promptly solves any election-related complaints, requests and disputes and to form its legal environment prior to next elections.