Embassy in Beijing holds meeting of Mongolists

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia's Embassy in Beijing held a meeting with some 30 Mongol studies scholars January 28, in anticipation of Tsagaan Sar (Lunar new year). The event was opened by the Ambassador Ts.Sukhbaatar. "To promote the Mongol studies, Mongolian government issued a national programme on this discipline and set up related to it National Council and a Promotion fund," he said and added that Ulaanbaatar is to host the 11th Annual International Mongol Studies Conference this August. Some 30 scholars were invited to this action from Peking University, General Administration of Press and Publication, China Central Television, China National Central University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Center for Mongolian Studies, The Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua and Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of China. The scholars expressed a gratitude to the Embassy for organizing this event and spoke about their academic works on the Mongol studies. At the end of the meeting, the Ambassador gave the gathered “Chronicles of Yuan Empire” books and treated them to the Mongolian cuisine.