PRESIDENT’S ADVISOR ADDRESSES ANTI-CORRUPTION INT’L FORUM

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ An advisor to the President on human rights and legal policy Ch.Onorbayar has delivered a speech at opening of the “Open Ulaanbaatar-2014” international anti-corruption forum which ran October 6-7 in Ulaanbaatar. “A society based on freedom is always required to bear a respect for the justice because a regime without the freedom leads to a dictatorship, whereas the freedom without the regime causes wantonness,” he emphasized. "As the Mongolian President is leading anti-corruption actions, activities of the legal and court bodies have gained some achievements, therefore Mongolia managed to minimize its corruption index in the last two years,” he said. The leader of Mongolia put forward the “From big government to smart government” initiative last year, "it aims to form a state concept based on clear researches and is focused on services, and it respects the justice and bears responsibilities. In frames of the actions, parliament adopted the law on 'glass' accounts, creating a development fund for localities. Another bill--on public hearing--has been submitted to parliament," he said. Saying that our neighbour countries intend to the anti-corruption codex of economic cooperation and developmental organizations, Mr Onorbayar underlined an importance of the three countries' joining this codex in order to affirm their attempts to fight against trans-boundary corruption.