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Advisors to President of Mongolia appointed www.montsame.mn

On June 28, 2021, President of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh issued an ordinance, appointing his policy advisors as follows.
Professor of law Byambajargal Altangerel, who served as deputy director of the Law School of the National University of Mongolia in 2017-2021, as his legal policy advisor,
Economist and former advisor to Minister of Finance Batsuuri Davaadalai as his economic policy advisor,
Odbayar Erdenetsogt, who had been serving as the Executive Director of the International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries since 2018 as his foreign policy advisor,
Lodoiravsal Choimaa, Vice President for Research, International and Corporate Relations at the National University of Mongolia as his education, science and technological policy advisor,
Bum-Ochir Dulam, former advisor to the Minister of Culture, as his culture and religious policy advisor.
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President Khurelsukh appoints Chief of Staff, National Security Council Secretary www.montsame.mn

Upon taking an oath of office, on June 25, President of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh issued a decree on appointing Ya.Sodbaatar as the Chief of Staff of the Office of the President, dismissing U.Shijir. Sodbaatar served as Deputy Prime Minister in 2020-201 and Minister of Road and Transport Development in 2018-2019.
A decree was also issued on appointing J.Enkhbayar the Secretary of the National Security Council, dismissing the previous Secretary A.Gansukh. J.Enkhbayar was an advisor to Prime Minister between 2020-2021 and member of the State Great Khural in 2016-2020.
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53.1 percent of population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 www.montsame.mn

Since the vaccination rollout launched in Mongolia in February, 1,956,403 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of vaccine and 1,726,339 people or 53.1 percent with the second dose.
Of the total vaccinated people, 983,168 are the residents of Ulaanbaatar, of whom 868,439 have been vaccinated with both doses.
As for the residents of the rural regions, 973,250 people have been vaccinated, of whom 857,900 have been vaccinated with both doses.
Starting from today, June 28, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is being administered to children aged between 12 and 15 years old.
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Mongolia reports highest daily count of 15 more COVID-19 deaths www.xinhuanet.com

June 28 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia reported 15 more COVID-19 deaths over the past 24 hours, the record daily count since the start of the pandemic, pushing the nationwide death toll to 552, the health ministry said Monday.
The decedents were people aged 38 to 80, the ministry said in a statement.
Since mid-June, more than 10 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported daily in the country with a population of 3.3 million.
COVID-19 cases in Mongolia rose by 1,811 in the past day to 111,505, and 834 more people have recovered from the disease, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 70,792, said the ministry.
The Asian country reported its first imported COVID-19 case in March 2020 and confirmed its first locally transmitted case in November last year.
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World political parties on CPC centenary: China's miraculous growth under CPC leadership inspires the world www.xinhuanet.com

GLOBALink | World political parties on CPC centenary: China's miraculous growth under CPC leadership inspires the world

Source: Xinhua| 2021-06-23 20:13:14|Editor: huaxia
 

China's development experience has offered great inspirations to many other countries, say world party leaders.

Produced by Xinhua Global Service■

 

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Female Students Revolt Against ‘Virginity Tests’ www.globalpressjournal.com

ERDENET, ORKHON PROVINCE, MONGOLIA — On that day in October 2019, the afternoon bell rang, and the girls thought school was over. They were ready to go home, but their teachers told them to stay. They had to go to the doctor’s office.
Khaliun Khurelbaatar, then a 10th grader, was surprised. No one had told the girls why they needed medical attention, and no one had sought their consent.
They lined up outside the office and went in one by one. Two doctors wore white gowns and disposable gloves, she recalls. A chair and small ultrasound machine were side by side. The doctor told Khaliun to remove her pants and underwear.
“During the examination, I just wanted to put back on my pants and underwear,” says Khaliun, her normally confident voice now low and anxious. “We were all upset.”
She was so angry that she joined a protest initiative to end these so-called “virginity tests.”
In 2018, the United Nations condemned the worldwide practice as an act of violence that degrades teenage girls, causes them psychological trauma and violates their sexual rights. But girls in Mongolia say the exams never went away.
“Nobody seemed to care about these girls’ examinations at school,” says Myagmarsuren Gansukh, 18, who leads the Young Voices Group, a national protest initiative that Khaliun joined. “We decided to fight against it on our own.”
Officially, the doctors were checking Khaliun and her classmates for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, a practice that took hold in Mongolia in the 1990s. The exams begin when girls are 15 and are conducted annually until students finish high school. Though no official national policy exists, the exams are still conducted widely in schools.
In the past, Mongolia was far from alone. In their “global call to eliminate violence against women and girls everywhere,” the World Health Organization, United Nations Women and the United Nations Human Rights Commission noted that the tests were “a longstanding tradition that has been documented in at least 20 countries spanning every region of the world.”
Their statement assailed the exams as a “medically unnecessary, and oftentimes painful, humiliating and traumatic practice [that] must end.”
Last year, Myagmarsuren’s group spearheaded a “Girls’ Voices” survey in partnership with Save the Children, an international organization, and the Princess Center to Protect the Rights of Girls and Young Women, a national counseling, advocacy and training group.
The survey proved what Mongolian girls already knew: Schools were still conducting virginity tests. Seventy-two percent said they had not consented to the exams. Two-thirds of respondents opposed the practice under any circumstances.
“There is no information whatsoever given to girls before the examination,” says Ujin Sainkhuu, 14, an eighth grader. “The teacher says, ‘Just do it.’”
“Nobody seemed to care about these girls’ examinations at school. We decided to fight against it on our own.”
MYAGMARSUREN GANSUKH
YOUNG VOICES GROUP
As Khaliun and her classmates waited for their exams in October 2019, they were confused and anxious, she says. In the office, one doctor told her not to panic. This won’t hurt, he said.
After the exam, she underwent an ultrasound. The whole process took about 10 minutes, after which the doctor told her to send in the next girl.
“It’s awkward and ugly to take off your underwear in front of strangers and be examined,” says Khaliun, now 18. “When I wasn’t wearing any clothes, I was nervous and scared, wondering what would happen if someone else came in.”
Until recently, she says, she told no one about her exam.
Parents at the school say they were unaware. A mother of four girls, Ariunjargal Lkhaasuren says, “We know about it only after the examination is completed. I do not want to have my girls undergoing the examination without my consent anymore.”
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Officials at the Ministry of Education and Science declined to answer questions. In 2018, the ministry added health education – including reproductive health – to the curriculum, but in the Girls’ Voices survey, a majority of students said they weren’t learning enough about reproductive and sexual issues.
Badamkhand Tumurbaatar, a specialist in charge of children’s health education and youth issues at the Family, Child and Youth Development Agency in Orkhon province — located in northern Mongolia — supports the examinations: “It [is] useful to conduct regular medical examinations.”
So does Ganchimeg Bilegsaikhan, a doctor at Khaliun’s school. He says the exams prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and are used for quantitative research.
“It needs to be done properly,” Ganchimeg says. “It’s good for the girls’ health.”
Many female students disagree. The Young Voices Group, a leading advocate to end the practice, includes 250 girls at 28 secondary schools and universities across Mongolia. Last year, the 6-year-old organization launched a program called “School Is Not a Hospital” in collaboration with professional organizations.
The project focuses on teaching girls about reproductive health. There’s an e-learning course and a Facebook page, where a chatbot provides reproductive information and advice to teenagers. More than 2,000 teenagers have sought help from the bot.
Schools must begin to include teenagers in policies about reproduction issues, Myagmarsuren says. “The fact that adults do not hear the views of adolescents is a sign of their human rights violation.”
Khuslen Badamjav, 16, a 10th grader, has already been examined once. After taking part in the survey and the “School Is Not a Hospital” project, she realized that “girls do not need to be examined without permission.”
The next time school doctors want to examine her, she plans to say no.
Khorloo Khukhnohoi is a Global Press Journal reporter based in Mongolia. Born and raised in Uvs province, she was a television journalist prior to joining Global Press Journal.
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U.S. President sends congratulatory note to Mongolian President www.montsame.mn

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How Ivanhoe’s giant new Congo mine stacks up against copper mining’s top tier www.mining.com

When Ivanhoe Mines’ Kamoa-Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of Congo went into production a month ago it was the biggest new mine to do so since Escondida in Chile in November 1990.
Escondida hit its stride eight years later, producing 867,000 tonnes on its way to a peak of more than 1.4m tonnes a decade later. With more than 50 years left, the BHP-Rio Tinto owned operation may remain unsurpassed over its life in terms of sheer size.
A new report by BMO Capital Markets analyst Andrew Mikitchook outlines a similarly rapid growth path for Kamoa-Kakula, with the DRC mine entering peak production of 841,000 tonnes by 2028.
Kamoa-Kakula may never hit seven figures in annual output (although exploration on Ivanhoe’s adjacent Western Foreland licences which the Vancouver-based company owns 90%–100% of may transform the complex’s prospects once again) but size is not necessarily its standout feature.
Grade is.
According to a 2019 PEA, Kamoa-Kakula is being developed in 5 phases of 3.8m tonnes (phase 2 has been brought forward to Q3 2022) for total ore processing capacity of 19m tonnes per year.
The first table based on BMO’s ramp-up projections compares Kamoa-Kakula with the 10 largest copper mines in the world based on 2020 production volume. At the bumper grades during ramp-up, Kamao-Kakula’s ore is many factors more valuable than its peers.
Next year the mine will enter the top 10, and by 2026 when it enters steady state production it will vie with Freeport’s Grasberg, itself in aggressive ramp up, as the number two mine in the world.
That year – all things being equal and of course they won’t be – every tonne milled would be worth eight times Escondida’s, 20 times Morenci’s and even against Grasberg’s underground expansion, it’s a factor of five (solely on a Cu basis – Grasberg’s gold and silver credits put it in a different camp altogether).
Grade at Kamoa-Kakula declines steadily over the five phases as per the PEA, averaging between 4%-3% during the second half of its 47-year mine life, but even then Kamao-Kakula would be by far the richest copper mine almost of any size on the planet.
Table 2 shows BMO’s projected performance metrics for the mine and Ivanhoe’s financial performance, showing how Kamoa-Kakula’s ore quality feeds into low all-in sustaining costs (comparable with the 2020 PEA) and torrents of free cash – topping a billion just four years after first concentrate.
The performance stats show Kamao-Kakula production at 100% (for consistency with company disclosure) and adjusted for the actual startup on 25 May. The financial metrics include Ivanhoe’s revival of the Kipushi zinc-copper mine from 2024 and the Platreef project (PGM-Ni-Cu-Au at 4mtpa) in South Africa from 2026.
Even at 39.6% ownership (matching that of Zijin Mining with Kinshasa holding a fifth) BMO points out that Ivanhoe’s stake is still substantial at just below 300,000 tonnes for most of the mine life. And the potential cash flow streams attributable to Ivanhoe is an indication of its ability to self-finance through phase 5 as well as Kipushi and Platreef, says Mikitchook.
BMO has an outperform rating on Ivanhoe Mines (TSE:IVN) and upped its price target to $15.00 in this report. Ivanhoe was last trading at $8.54 a share in Toronto with a market value of C$10.3 billion ($8.4 billion). Copper was last trading at $4.32 a pound or $9,525 per tonn
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President U.Khurelsukh takes oath with inaugural parade www.news.mn

On 25 June, U.Khurelsukh was officially sworn in as the Sixth President of Mongolia, taking his oath at a special parliamentary session. The ceremonial session of the State Great Khural was attended by 68 MPs and delegates from foreign diplomatic missions in Mongolia.
U.Khurelsukh, the candidate from the Mongolian People’s Party triumphed in the Mongolia’s presidential elections, which were held on June 9th. He became the first candidate in recent history to win more than two-thirds of the vote. His party already holds a supermajority in parliament.
To mark the event, an inaugural parade for U.Khurelsukh consisting of 200 troops, paraded on Sukhbaatar Square next to the State Palace. The number of troops was reduced from over 3000 after dozens of soldiers were confirmed as having coronavirus. Crowds were also very limited.
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Government to submit its proposal to Parliament to continue supports for households and businesses www.montsame.mn

On June 25, Prime Minister L. Oyun-Erdene introduced to the National Security Council a proposal to continue the government's decision on providing an additional funding for the health sector, granting monthly allowance of MNT 100 thousand to each child, and paying utility bills (electricity, heat, and waste bills) of households and some enterprises until the end of this year, as well as extending a 50 percent discount rate of refined coal until March of 2022.
At the meeting, President U. Khurelsukh and Chairman of State Great Khural (Parliament) G. Zandanshatar expressed their support. Therefore, within the next week the Government will submit to the Parliament a detailed action plan on continuing some measures to support livelihoods and businesses and providing necessary additional funding for the health sector.
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