NAT’L COUNCIL TO BE SET UP TO ORGANIZE ASEM SUMMIT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The President of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj Tuesday issued a decree on setting up a national council that will be in charge of hosting the 11th ASEM Summit in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar. This council will bear all the responsibility for preparing and running this measure and for providing it with proper directions. The decree also approves the council’s composition. A chair of the council--Chj.Saikhanbileg PM--is obliged to establish working groups and services, to adopt a working plan, and to introduce to the cabinet its implementation every month, his deputies will be the Foreign Minister L.Purevsuren and the head of the Presidential Office P.Tsagaan. The national council will also have members such as the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Road and Transportation; the head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government; the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city; an advisor to the President on security and foreign policy; an advisor to the President on public relations policy; a chief advisor to the Speaker; an advisor to the PM; an advisor to the PM on public relations policy; a working service chair of the National Security Council (NSC). The State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been appointed the national council’s secretary.