FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES PART IN MEETINGS

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Foreign Affairs L.Bold participated in several meetings on September 25-26 during the 67th session of the UN General Assembly running in New York city, USA. As Mongolia is chairing the Community of Democracies (CoD), the FM delivered a report at the CoD's Leading Council meeting about Mongolia's measures, activities and plans. He also introduced the gathered to a draft resolution on education for democracy to be approved by the 67th session. Then L.Bold chaired a meeting of the Group of democratic countries at the UN held with a theme "Law rule and democracy". Speeches have been delivered by Mr Ivan Simonovic, a UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights; Mr Roland Rich, a director of the United Nations Democracy Fund; Mr Vidar Helgesen, a Secretary-general of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA); and by Foreign Ministers of 15 countries. At the 11th Ministerial Meeting of Landlocked Developing Countries, Mr Bold emphasized an importance of joint efforts to tackle common problems of the landlocked developing countries. He congratulated the Lao People's Democratic Republic on becoming the second state to ratify a multi-lateral agreement on establishing the International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries in the UB city, and then urged other countries to join this agreement. An initiative of Mongolia on founding the Friendship Group of landlocked developing countries has been presented as well. After these meetings, the Minister L.Bold held meetings with his counterparts from Australia, Lichtenstein, El Salvador, Sweden; also with Gyan Chandra Acharya, an Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States; and with Patrick Fine, the Vice President of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Compact Operations. B.Khuder