Minister gives speech about migration policy at UNGA summit

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia’s Minister of Population’s Development and Social Welfare S.Erdene took the floor at a summit titled "Migration and development". The summit ran last week within the 68th session of the United Nation General Assembly in New York, USA. The Minister talked about our government's policy on population’s migration, ongoing measures and further goals. Highlighting the foreign citizens’ migration, the Minister said Mongolia is paying a big deal of attention to an illegal employment of foreigners and to risk prevention. He also said the Mongolian government launched a national programme called "Beehive" with an aim to call back to the country all the Mongolians residing abroad. On October 4, the Minister signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (OPIC). Thus Mongolia has become the 44th state to sign it, and this action was applauded by the UN Secretariat.