State Emergency Commission meets

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The State Emergency Commission (SEC) held Wednesday its first this year meeting. The SEC chairman and the Deputy Premier U.Khurelsukh gave cards to new members of the SEC which includes ten Ministers, one Vice Minister, two State Secretaries, and heads of agencies in charge of ensuring the national security. In conjunction with changes in the SEC composition, its secretary-general Colonel M.Enkh-Amar presented the rule of the Commission and its works done. He said the SEC met 59 times, its working groups 21 times in 2009-2014 to issue 17 official orders, 17 orders of the SEC head and nine resolutions. Related to the national emergency matters were discussed at 75 cabinet meetings. Some 62.5 billion Togrog was allotted from the governmental reserve fund to save people and animals’ lives and properties from damages, to eliminate aftermath of natural disasters, and to run reconstruction works. A report on weather forecast of this year’s winter and spring was given by D.Tsogt-Ochir, a head of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. By him, the weather will be warmer by 0.5-1 C in most of the territories in January and in March, much snow is expected in a western half of the country in February. There was no snow in western and Gobi regions at the beginning of this month, and the temperature reached a plus at daytime in several territories, leading to conditions of drought. He warned that fires might occur and that rivers and lakes have not frozen completely. U.Khurelsukh gave some obligations to SEC members and told them to increase responsibilities, to submit to the cabinet necessary capital issues, to focus on ensuring a preparedness for preventing Ebola virus infection, and to give relevant reports.