VICE FM ABOUT COUNTRY’S POSITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNET

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At the 25th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Mongolia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr D.Gankhuyag participated Tuesday in a special meeting themed "The free and safe Internet for all". He delivered speech to express a position of Mongolia over human rights and freedom at the Internet and to highlight efforts to activate a participation in the Freedom Online Alliance (FOA). Mr Gankhuyag said Mongolia is studying matters on offering itself to a chair of this alliance from this year. Then he emphasized that the Internet is vital arena for human rights and freedom which gives all a right to express opinions and views. It is very important to provide every person with an access the Internet because it is a tool of ensuring many kinds of rights, governments and international community must focus on ensuring of the Internet security and on delivering necessary information to people so that their views are expressed and the rights and responsibilities are enjoyed, the Vice Minister underlined. Co-organized by Mongolia, Estonia, Tunisia, Mexico and the Internet Society international NGO, the special meeting aims to have all parties exchange views and experience in ensuring the Internet freedom and solving problems and introduce activities of the FOA. The FOA was founded in 2011 by a decision made during the Freedom Online ministerial conference held in the Hague, the Netherlands, with aims to ensure online freedom, to unite global efforts for avoiding any actions of restricting this right, and to attract attention of the international community to this matter.