FM RUNS "HOUR OF MINISTER" MEETING

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A goal to maintain a "one window" principle must not be forgotten or ignored in foreign relations or when all state bodies at all levels make ties with outer world through one voice and by one channel. It was underlined by the Minister of Foreign Affairs L.Purevsuren during the "Hour of Minister" weekly meeting Thursday. In frames of this work, a matter on ensuring a united regulation of external relations has been presented to all levels of parliament, government, the capital city and provinces, he added. He also said the Department of Foreign Economic Cooperation at his Ministry has been established with an aim to pass into a system of carrying out the external economic affairs only through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In frames of accelerating the external economic policy, a Minister of Foreign Affairs has been appointed the head of Mongolian sides of intergovernmental Commissions with Russia and China. Such an appointment is vital to enhance the commercial and economic ties with Russia and China, to unite activities of sub-commissions and working groups at the intergovernmental commissions, and to run the policies with the two countries through one window, the Minister said. A Department of foreign propaganda and media has been set up at the Foreign Ministry’s structure with a key purpose of propagandizing Mongolia abroad, the Minister said. A national program on Mongolian propaganda has been worked out to promote culture, arts, heritage, history, custom, sport, sciences and society foreign relations by spreading information about them in foreign world, he said. Another national program--on registering pieces of Mongolian cultural heritage abroad--has been formulated together with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Academy of Sciences. Moreover, a preparation is being ensured to join the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, Purevsuren said. Ending his "hour", the Minister pointed out that a complex policy is being drawn up to widen the policy which is more focused on Mongolians abroad and to support their proposals and initiatives.