Checkpoints to shift into new organizational structure

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Cabinet Office organized "Reforms in border checkpoints" consultative meeting on Wednesday. At the meeting, the Government’s actions to eliminate bureaucracy in the checkpoints activities were presented and ways to correlate actions of the affiliated agencies were explored. At his opening speech, the Chairman of the Cabinet Office Ch.Saikhanbileg read out a letter sent from a citizen who experienced a great burden amid importing goods through one of these ports. In order to pass freight priced at 14 thousand USD through the port, the importer spent six thousand USD, a quarter of which went to pockets of corrupt officers, the letter says. In order to reform activities and to abolish these kinds of corruption, the Government has been making great efforts, Mr Saikhanbileg noted. Cooperation treaties recently were concluded with relevant authorities of neighboring countries, and technological advancements were introduced to the dry ports--main export gates, he said. Mr Saikhanbileg announced that the border checkpoints authorities will shift into a new organizational structure on this April 1.