S.GANBAATAR MP RECEIVES EITI DELEGATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A member of parliament S.Ganbaatar Tuesday received a delegation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) including Wouter Biesterbos, an EITI director for Asia Affairs; and Anders Tunold Kråkenes, a director of the organization for communication affairs. Expressing thanks to the parliamentarian for an audience, Mr Biesterbos said the EITI Secretariat’s delegation is visiting Mongolia in order to get au fait with the Mongolia’s Office of the EITI. In response, Mr Ganbaatar said Mongolia wants to learn international standards and experience in transparency of extractive industries and to develop cooperation with the EITI. He noted that Mongolia intends to work out a draft law on regulation of conflicts in the mining. At the end of the meeting, Mr Biesterbos expressed a willingness to make a presentation to Mongolian parliamentarians about functions of the EITI.