L.PUREVSUREN BECOMES FOREIGN MINISTER

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A former advisor to the President on security and foreign policy Mr Purevsuren Lundeg was elected the Foreign Minister of Mongolia at a plenary meeting of the parliamentary session on Tuesday, with 93.3% votes of MPs. After the voting, the parliamentarians obliged Mr Purevsuren to focus a great deal of attention on some specific matters, for example, on a preparation of professional staffers of the external relations and on relations with our two neighbours and the Third neighbour countries. The preceded FM L.Bold emphasized that Mongolia has gained big achievements in the foreign ties under leadership of the President and appreciated that the name of the Ministry is coming back. Mr Purevsuren graduated from Gobi-Altai aimag’s secondary school in 1983, Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1989, he also completed various courses in Germany, New Zealand and the USA. He speaks English, Russian and German. He worked as an attaché in the Administration Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in 1989-1991; as a translator at Germany’s Embassy in Mongolia in 1991-1993; as an attaché at the Europe and American Department of the MFA in 1993-1995; as second and first secretary of Mongolia’s Embassy in Bonn in 1995-2000; as the first secretary and the Councilor of the MFA’s European Department in 2000-2009; and as an advisor to the President on foreign relations policy in 2009-2012. Since then, he served as an advisor to the President on security and foreign policy.