In its meeting on February 28, the WTO General Council agreed on the slate of names for chairpersons to WTO bodies who will preside the councils for a year.

The WTO TRIPS Council is responsible for monitoring the operation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, an international legal agreement between WTO and is member states, in particular, the member’ compliance with their obligations.

In the official letter, President Battulga proposed some matters to be included in the agenda of the extraordinary parliamentary session. These matters concern the release of the Director and Deputy Director of the Independent Authority Against Corruption from their duties on account of expiry of their terms in office and appointment of their successors, consultation regarding the appointment of the Chief of the General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces, and consultation regarding the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General on account of expiry of the incumbent’s term on January 8th, 2019.

The official letter says, “In accordance with provisions in the Section 3 of Article 16 of the Law on the State Great Khural of Mongolia, which states that the President … will submit his proposals on summoning an extraordinary session of the State Great Khural and on agenda of the extraordinary session to the Chairman of the State Great Khural, I request you to resolve this matter in compliance with the corresponding procedure.”

source: president.mn

Gulnara Karimova repeatedly used the internet and left her flat, which she was banned from doing, prosecutors say.

In 2017 Ms Karimova was sentenced to 10 years in jail for fraud and money laundering but that was commuted last year to house arrest.

She was once a diplomat and pop singer who was tipped to succeed her father.

Ms Karimova lived at her daughter's flat in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. Her Swiss lawyer, Grégoire Mangeat, said on Twitter that the 46-year-old had been "forcibly removed" from the flat on Tuesday afternoon and taken to an unknown location.

"We, her defence counsels, denounce these totally arbitrary methods," said Mr Mangeat. "For several months now, we have been unsuccessfully asking the Office of the Attorney General in Switzerland to commit an expert to establish the absence of the rule of law in Uzbekistan."

On Tuesday, a Tashkent court ruled that Ms Karimova must serve the remainder of her term in prison, prosecutors said in a statement.

They allege that she used forbidden communications methods, including the internet; left the flat; and failed to pay the state compensation.

Ms Karimova was once a prominent figure in Uzbek politics who held the posts of ambassador to Spain and permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, and was tipped to succeed her father, Islam Karimov, as president.

She also had her own jewellery line, ran an entertainment television channel and released pop singles under the name Googoosha.

But she reportedly fell out with her father and family in 2014 and shortly after she was detained by security forces. She was not seen in public for years and when her father, an authoritarian leader who ran Uzbekistan for 27 years, died in September 2016, she did not attend the funeral.

Prosecutors accused her of being part of a criminal group that controlled assets of more than $1bn (£760m) in 12 countries, including the UK, Russia and United Arab Emirates.

Then-prime minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev took over as president after the death of Islam Karimov in 2016.

The statement indicates the DP’s opposition against the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) over the MNT 60 billion sell-off of public sector positions, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Development Fund scandal, nationalization of 49 percent stake of the Erdenet Mining Corporation (EMC), and collateralization of the 51 percent of EMC, which is allegedly organized by certain MPP officials, demanding accountability from the responsible authorities. When asked his position on the privatization of EMC, the secretary of the DP refused to give comments until the judiciary releases a concrete answer. The DP further denied any involvement with the allegations regarding the EMC scandal and blamed the MPP for attempting to brush off their failure to fulfill election promises