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Ex-PM secures Mongolia's top job www.xinhuanet.com

ULAANBAATAR－Former Mongolian prime minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh has won the country's presidential election, further consolidating the status of the ruling Mongolian People's Party, or MPP.
MPP Chairman Khurelsukh, who resigned as prime minister earlier this year, defeated Sodnomzundui Erdene of the opposition Democratic Party and Dangaasuren Enkhbat of the Right Person Electorate Coalition in a national vote, the General Election Committee, or GEC, said.
"A total of 1,216,246 people cast their votes in the election, or 59.35 percent of all eligible voters. The candidate from the MPP, Khurelsukh, obtained 67.76 percent of the votes," Purevee Delgernaran, head of the GEC, said at a news conference.
The official noted that all paper ballots of the election were counted by hand to avoid any disputes related to ballot counting machines.
Khurelsukh will replace incumbent Khaltmaa Battulga, a former world champion in the martial art of sambo who cannot run for a second presidential term under constitutional rules.
"From the bottom of my heart, I thank my fellow Mongolians," he said.
Mongolia, with a population of around 3.3 million, has held eight presidential elections since 1993. Among them, the first presidential election had the highest voter turnout at 92.7 percent, while this year's election had the lowest voter turnout rate.
However, Khurelsukh won the highest percent of votes in the history of the country's presidential elections.
COVID-19 restrictions
His victory follows a series of COVID-19 restrictions. Most outdoor events were canceled on Saturday after the candidate Enkhbat tested positive for the coronavirus.
Mongolia introduced some of the strictest early measures against the virus and achieved early success in keeping numbers low.
But cases have soared in recent months, although there have been impressive high rates of vaccination.
Mongolia recorded 1,460 new COVID-19 infections in the latest 24-hour period, the highest daily spike since the outbreak began, bringing the national tally to 70,482, with 348 deaths, the country's Health Ministry said on Thursday.
The economy shrank by 5.3 percent in 2020, its worst contraction since the early 1990s and far from its peak growth rate of 17 percent in 2013, figures from the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank showed.
Mongolia's political system gives its elected parliament the right to appoint governments and decide policy, but the president has the power to veto legislation and hire and fire judges.
The presidency has often been controlled by the opposition party in the past. Khurelsukh's election is expected to give the MPP more control over the levers of power, although he is obliged to relinquish his party affiliation as soon as he takes office.
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Shenzhou-12: China to launch first human spaceflight since 2016 www.aljazeera.com

A Chinese spacecraft will blast off from the Gobi Desert on a Long March rocket in the coming days, ferrying three men to an orbiting space module for a three-month stay, the first time China has sent humans into space for nearly five years.
Shenzhou-12, meaning “Divine Vessel”, will be the third of 11 missions needed to complete China’s space station by 2022. Among them, four will be missions with people on board, potentially propelling up to 12 Chinese astronauts into space – more than the 11 men and women that China has sent since 2003.
“The motherland is powerful,” one person wrote on Chinese social media, which has lit up with well-wishes for the Shenzhou-12 crew. “The launch is a gift to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party.”
Chinese astronauts have had a relatively low international profile. A United States law banning NASA from any connection with China means its astronauts have not been to the more-than-two-decade-old International Space Station, visited by more than 240 men and women of various nationalities.
China, which aims to become a major spacefaring power by 2030, in May became the second country to put a rover on Mars, two years after landing the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
It also plans to put astronauts on the moon.
This time, men
The Shenzhou-12 crew is to live on the Tianhe, “Harmony of the Heavens”, a cylinder 16.6 metres (55 feet) long and 4.2 metres (14 feet) in diameter.
The planned three-month stay would break the country’s record of 30 days, set by the 2016 mission – China’s last crewed flight – of Chen Dong and Jing Haipeng to a prototype station.
Three men from China’s first and second groups of astronauts will be on this mission, Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and China’s first astronaut, told the state-run news agency Global Times last month.
China’s space bloggers speculate the astronauts will be Nie Haisheng – who at 56 would be the oldest Chinese astronaut sent into space, Deng Qingming, 55, and Ye Guangfu, 40.
The authorities typically do not announce a mission’s crew until near or after the launch. China Manned Space did not respond to a Reuters news agency fax request for comment.
The oldest human in space was John Glenn, who flew on the space shuttle at age 77 in 1998 – after having been the first American to orbit the earth in 1962, a US senator and a presidential candidate.
While no women are scheduled for the Shenzhou-12 mission, they are expected to participate in every following mission, Yang told the Global Times.
Two women, Liu Yang and Wang Yaping, were selected in 2011 among China’s second cohort, after the first batch of 14 men in the mid-1990s. Liu was China’s first woman in space in 2012, while Wang was the youngest, at 33, in 2013.
China began building its space station in April with the launch of Tianhe, the first and largest of its three modules. This year it aims to send a robotic cargo resupply spacecraft and three more astronauts, this time for a six-month stay.
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COVID-19: 2,263 new cases, 8 deaths reported www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A single-day record of 2,263 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded from over 10 thousand tests processed nationwide in the past 24 hours.
1,650 of the new cases were detected in Ulaanbaatar city and 613 in rural areas. Specifically, 106 cases were newly confirmed in Orkhon aimag, 91 in Darkhan-Uul, 17 in Khuvsgul, 24 in Selenge, 7 in Bulgan, 72 in Khovd, 13 in Khentii, 34 in Tuv, 28 in Arkhangai, 32 in Dornod, 45 in Uvurkhangai, 97 in Gobi-Altai, 36 in Bayankhongor, 23 in Uvs, 8 in Bayan-Ulgii, 15 in Zavkhan, 8 in Gobisumber, and 22 in Sukhbaatar.
26.3 percent or over 500 of the new cases are children under the age of 17, 66 percent are people aged between 18 and 59, and 7.8 percent are people aged over 60.
78,347 COVID-19 cases have so far been recorded in the country. In the past 24 hours, 523 people were discharged from hospital, which takes the total number of recoveries to 57,025. 9,323 people are currently receiving hospital treatment for COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health also reported that 8 people died from COVID-19, which brings the COVID-19 death toll to 369.
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U.Khurelsukh to take presidential oath on June 25 www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On June 11, the State Great Khural (Parliament) of Mongolia passed a resolution setting a date for the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect U.Khurelsukh.
In the presidential election that took place on June 9, 2021, candidate from the Mongolian People’s Party U.Khurelsukh led the ballot with 823,326 votes or gained 67.8 percent of total votes, whereas candidate from the Right Person Electoral Coalition D.Enkhbat followed with 246,968 votes (20.3 percent) with candidate from the Democratic Party S.Erdene collecting 72,832 votes (6 percent).
77 percent of the MPs voted in favor of the resolution to have U.Khurelsukh sworn in as the sixth President of Mongolia at 11:40 AM on June 25.
As stated in the Constitution of Mongolia, within 30 days after the election, the President-elect shall take the following oath before the National Parliament:
“I swear that I will guard and defend the independence and sovereignty of Mongolia, freedom of the people and national unity, and that I will uphold and observe the Constitution and faithfully perform the duties of the President”.
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G7 nations seek to counter China’s Silk Road projects with ambitious infrastructure plan www.rt.com

The Group of Seven (G7) countries have announced plans for a major infrastructure project for developing nations in a bid to rival China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as “One Belt, One Road.”
The agreement on the initiative titled Build Back Better World (B3W) came on the second day of the Cornwall summit of the seven richest democracies carried out in southwestern England.
The vast project is aimed at providing a transparent infrastructure partnership to “help narrow the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to a senior official in the US presidential administration.
“This is not just about confronting or taking on China,” the top official said. “But until now we haven’t offered a positive alternative that reflects our values, our standards and our way of doing business.”
According to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the “important initiative” is much needed in Africa.
“We can’t sit back and say that China will do it but it’s the G7’s ambition to have a positive agenda for a number of countries in the world which are still lagging behind… I welcome it,” the German leader said.
It was not immediately disclosed how the project would be implemented or how much investment it would ultimately take. The G7 members also didn’t specify an implementation time.
China’s BRI, dubbed the 21st century Silk Road project, was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping eight years ago. The major project involves development and investment initiatives that would stretch from Asia to Europe and beyond. Since then, Beijing has inked around 200 cooperation documents with 167 countries and international organizations.
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The multi-trillion-dollar initiative aims to boost connectivity and cooperation between Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Experts say it will significantly boost global commerce, cutting trading costs by half for the countries involved.
The project has been sharply criticized by the US and EU officials as a vehicle for the expansion of Communist China with Beijing saying that those doubts betray the “imperial hangover” of many Western powers that humiliated China for centuries.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulates Mongolia's Khurelsukh on election win www.news.cgtn.com

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent a congratulatory message to Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on his election as Mongolian president.
In his message, President Xi said China and Mongolia are friendly neighbors and sincere cooperative partners linked by mountains and rivers.
Bilateral relations have maintained a sound momentum of development in recent years, Xi pointed out, adding that the two sides have made concerted efforts to combat COVID-19 and achieved positive results.
Xi said he attaches great importance to the development of China-Mongolia relations, and is ready to continue working with President Khurelsukh for new and greater development of the China-Mongolia comprehensive strategic partnership.
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Mongolia's daily COVID-19 cases top 2,000 www.xinhuanet.com

June 13 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia reported 2,188 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the first time that the country hit the 2,000 threshold on a daily basis, the health ministry said Sunday.
The latest confirmed cases, which were all locally transmitted, brought the national tally to 76,084, said the ministry in a statement.
The country meanwhile reported 10 new fatalities and 496 more recoveries, taking the nationwide counts to 375 and 56,947, respectively, it said.
Noting that children account for more than 30 percent of the recent daily cases, the ministry urged the public to follow all health guidelines to protect the minors.
The virus has spread to the capital Ulan Bator and all the 21 provinces of the country, with the capital city, which is home to over half of the country's population of 3.3 million, being the hardest-hit area.
Mongolia launched a national vaccination campaign in late February with a target of 60 percent coverage. So far, more than 1,891,800 people in Mongolia have received a first dose, and over 1,642,600 have been fully vaccinated.
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New international airport to be put into operation on July 4 www.montsame.mn

On June 10, Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene became acquainted with the new Chinggis Khaan International Airport as well as the progress of the Bogdkhan Railway Bypass Line project.
“Despite the order that was issued to put the Chinggis Khaan
International Airport into operation starting from July 1, 2021, we are
currently carrying out works to open the airport on July 4. There will be no
flights conducted at Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport from July 4,”
introduced Deputy Director of Civil Aviation Authority of Mongolia (MCAA)
N.Myagmarsuren.
According to officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of Mongolia (MCAA), an operative team has been established with 38 members at the new airport so far. Prior to the opening, the aircraft at Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport will conduct test flights to the new airport.
They then introduced that it is currently being planned to
conduct a flight in route Ulaanbaatar - Tokyo - Ulaanbaatar at 11.40 am on the
opening day of the airport. Preparations are also underway to receive a charter
flight in route Frankfurt - Ulaanbaatar on the same day.
Regarding the matter of receiving foreign nationals during the National Naadam Festival, Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene said, “Firstly, Mongolia will receive citizens that have been fully vaccinated. If necessary, it should also be made possible to be involved in vaccinations and be put in mandatory isolation in the country,” noting that issues such as moving the operations of Buyant-Ukhaa airport and stabilizing flight operations needs to be discussed at a Cabinet meeting.
He then continued on to say, “A free economic zone should be
established in Khushig Valley, with transport and logistics centers located at
this place. Furthermore, the Bogdkhan Railway Bypass Line project needs to be
launched before July 4. To establish its route, it is crucial to cooperate with
the private sector.”
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High workload of investigators negatively affects fight against corruption www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. One of the key anti-corruption activities is to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Corruption offenses are often committed by high-level executives at the decision-making level, and the failure to impose appropriate penalties on the perpetrators undermines public confidence in the government, and citizens start feeling that the law is not exercised impartially. Thus, increasing the level of corruption and negatively affects society as a whole.
The level of corruption in a country is highly dependent on the activities of the Anti-Corruption Authority, which is usually the only entity authorized to detect and investigate corruption crimes. Therefore, it is possible to fight corruption effectively by keeping the workload of the Anti-Corruption Authority’s investigators at a normal level and conducting investigations efficiently.
According to research conducted by The Asia Foundation's Evaluation Team under the Asian Development Bank-supported “Strengthening the Anti-Corruption System” project in Mongolia, a high number of investigators in the Anti-Corruption Authority has been shown to have positive effects on the Corruption Perceptions Index. The correlation between the percentage of investigators in the organization and the CPI is shown in Figure 1.
Increased workload appears to be closely connected to the increasing number of complaints, but also to the special attributes of corruption crimes as well as the complexities that make these crimes difficult to investigate. It is clear that accessing, collecting, and studying information, and obtaining various expert opinions, and prosecutors’ approvals are taking significant time and effort and can include some processes that seem inefficient when viewed from the outside. This slows down investigations, even as more cases are coming in, and adds to the high workload of investigators.
According to a survey conducted on investigators of Mongolian Independent Authority Against Corruption, 56 percent said that the workload has a very high effect on the investigation of corruption crimes.
The workload for one investigator at the IAAC is significantly higher than compared to other countries. The IAAC receives 800 crime reports annually, which means there are 17 reports per one investigator which have a significant negative impact on the effective fight against corruption, as well as, the detection and investigation of perpetrators.
Furthermore, OECD’s ‘Anti-Corruption reforms in Mongolia project’ report also highlighted increased workload of IAAC’s investigators.
It is clear that the number of investigators is not in accordance with the increasing volume of work the institution has experienced. In 2018, the IAAC investigated 1040 cases involving 1126 suspects, while in 2017 it investigated only 427 cases with 654 suspects. The workload practically doubled while staff remained practically unchanged. Increasingly active work of the IAAC in 2018 is explained by the legislative amendments which excluded damages as an element of abuse of power and assigned to its jurisdiction all criminal offences committed by police officers while fulfilling official duties.
Therefore, it is clear that Mongolia needs to increase the number of investigators and reduce the number of cases per investigator as part of its effective Anti-Corruption efforts. A high workload can have a significant negative impact on the health and well-being of investigators in addition to the investigation.
Source: Independent Authority Against Corruption
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2021 Presidential Election: Preliminary results and voter turnout www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. As of 1:30 AM, June 10, 99.3 percent of the polling stations across the country have submitted the results of presidential election to the General Election Commission.
Specifically, candidate from the Mongolian People’s Party U.Khurelsukh led the ballot with 823,092 votes or gained 67.76 percent of total votes, whereas candidate from the Right Person Electoral Coalition D.Enkhbat followed with 246,968 votes (20.3 percent) with candidate from the Democratic Party S.Erdene collecting 72,832 votes (5.99 percent). Moreover, 71,937 (5.93 percent of all votes) blank ballot papers have been counted.
Voter turnout was reported to be at 59.24 percent on the national level. In particular, out of 2,041,985 voters on the national electoral register, 1,208,408 have cast their votes.
With latest amendments to the Constitution of Mongolia made in December 2019, the new president will be appointed for a single six-year term, instead of the renewable four-year term.
However, this is only preliminary results and the General Election Commission will announce the official final results by June 10 afternoon.
As stated in the law, the General Election Commission is required to submit the final results of presidential election and the resolution on approving the authority of the President of Mongolia to the State Great Hural within 10 days after the vote.
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