PREMIER AND MPRP CHAIRMAN EXPLAIN COOPERATE TREATY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister and head of the Democratic Party (DP) N.Altankhuyag; and chairman of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) N.Enkhbayar Wednesday called a press conference to explain a reason of establishing the collaboration treaty between the political parties and correct the misunderstanding among people especially members of the DP regarding the document’s contents. In order to ensure the DP’s domestic unity and strengthen the domestic trust, the Premier emphasized that he wanted to form a general understanding about the treaty, adding that this treaty has not come into force yet. The treaty shall come into force after discussing it through administrative bodies of the political parties. So, the two parties have agreed to set up a working group to alter and revise the treaty because the parties do not have a general understanding about the document’s clauses. After reaching a unified understanding on the treaty, the parties will approve it by the parties’ related authorities, the Premier said. Rumor and slander have been going around making the treaty a document only between the two political parties or between individuals, for example, a document with counterfeit signatures of the PM and MPRP chairman has been published through the media to get the public believed it was a secret document, the Premier stressed. In turn, the MPRP chairman N.Enkhbayar noted about one of the reasons on the treaty’s establishment, saying that the DP has accepted a proposal to the MPRP to collaborate in making their cooperation more organized. Supporting the PM’s statement of the Premier, Enkhbayar noted that people cast their votes in the 2012 parliamentary for forming a cabinet in which no political party will dominate the state authority alone, and it means that people demanded that the political parties should collaborate. “This is not a treaty only between the two parties,” he stressed. Regarding the treaty, Enkhbayar pointed out that he has positively accepted some critics from the DP members. “I understand that they just had implied it should be revised or altered,” he continued. Any contract will be realized well when its feasibility is good, thus the two parties have backed a principle to set up the working group to enrich and alter the document, reflecting proposals from the parties’ members, Enkhbayar said. “There is no purpose to make the current cabinet and the DP failed,” he emphasized. The MPRP chairman said political parties are now more dependent on businessmen or oligarchs, and they affect the state leaders making various decision in harmony of their interests, so the treaty reflects a clause to finance political parties’ from the state budget. This clause and other new clauses will become big step for combating corruption and making political parties more responsible and cultural, Enkhbayar said.