On October 20, Globe Intrernational NGO held a Public discussion on the ‘Monitoring report for Mongolian National Broadcasting (MNB) at the Press Institute. 20 representatives from (MNB), Open Society Forum, and the Confederation of Mongolian journalists participated in the discussion.

Globe International, which is actively involved in developing the draft law on MNB, paid more attention on the law implementation. Failures occurred in the process of the law’s implementation and the public discussion was organized to give concrete advice and a conclusion for the concerned organizations.

MNB National Board member G.Tserenpurev said, “We are glad for developing the monitoring report. All of the processes of the MNB are reflected in the monitoring report. We support the part of the monitoring report that requests financial support from the donor organizations for innovating techniques and technology. But we disagree on providing Control Council members from outside. It would be difficult to reach a consensus.

Misunderstanding between National Board members and the staff of the MNB still exist due to the absence of a rule regulating their relations. MNB is dependent on the economy and the policy, said Temporary Committee member Mr. G.Badamsambuu. According to the former executive director Mr S. Myagmar, “It is necessary to amend the existing law. The article 21.5 of the MNB law, makes the National Board dependent on the state. According to the law, the President, Parliament and the Government nominate the members of the National Board.

‘We are not denying the transparent actions of the National Board of MNB which is working in the difficult and transitional period of the MNB. But in the process of observations we realized that National Board’s decision. I think it is difficult to continue the work without the support of the staff’ stated Ms. Kh. Naranjargal, head of the Globe International NGO.

The project Free expression violation monitoring had the support Open Society Forum and the Media region of the Open Society Institute, and the monitoring report was developed by the Globe International NGO.
Source: Globe International NGO