P.TSAGAAN MEETS IRI DELEGATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Head of the Presidential Office P.Tsagaan Monday received a delegation of the International Republican Institute (IRI). The delegation included Ms Gretchen A.Kunze, a country representative of the IRI to Mongolia, and Ms Ashleigh Whelan, a senior advisor/deputy director of the Democratic Governance at IRI. Recently appointed the IRI country director for Mongolia, Ms Kunze expressed a satisfaction with the cooperation between Mongolia and the IRI in democracy, and focused on actions and activities of Mongolia to combat corruption, deepen the democratic reforms, share democratic experiences with other countries. Mr Tsagaan wished the IRI country director successes and said Mongolia always thanks the IRI and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for helping Mongolia in transferring to the democratic and market-economy system. Ms Kunze said great changes happened in Mongolia in the last 24 years and appreciated Mongolia’s success in realizing its own democracy and becoming a good example in its region. The Presidential Office head noted that the action of transmitting into the smart government from big government launched at an initiative of the President Ts.Elbegdorj, in addition, works have started to transfer into the direct democracy from the electoral democracy and to ensure civil participation as well as the direct democracy nationwide, he emphasized.