UNESCO, Beijing office and Globe International, a Mongolian NGO have concluded a consultative meeting titled “Right of the national minorities to access, produce and exchange information” on September 30, 2009 at Continental Hotel.
Presently, 90 percent of 100 thousand khazakh citizens of Mongolia reside in Bayan-Olgii province. Population in Khovd province and Nalaikh district comprise of kazakhs 10 and 30 percent respectively. Beside that, they live in a large group in Shariin gol and Erdenet city. The remote location of the Bayan-Olgii province from the capital, weak infrastructure, absence of major industry and enterprises, non-availability of national laws publications in Kazakh language cause unemployment and poverty, negatively affect on getting health care and social welfare, exercising citizen’s right, right to education among Kazakhs as well as other minorities living together with them.
47.5 percent of all participants to the survey on “Implementation of rights of national minority kazakhs”, by the Center of Human rights and Democracy, in October 2008, didn’t speak Mongolian Language. The survey also showed increase of kazakhs in this category in recent years.
This tendency results in undesirable consequences for kazakh minorities in terms of receiving applicable education and participating in social life. Especially, they have extremely limited possibility to access information in their native language as well as protect and inherit national traditions and customs, language and culture, in the areas outside Bayan-Olgii province. 
UNESCO is seeking a possibility for broadcast in kazakh language and expressing its comittment to facilitate technical assistance in establishing editorial office in Bayan-Olgii and Ulaanbaatar, and in training appropriate personnel.
D. Ziyasheva, UNESCO Advisor of Communication and Information for East Asia, Colin Knowles, Advisor of Australian Broadcast Corporation, also leaders of Government, NGOs, and Mongolian National Public Radio and Television, representatives of Kazakh community have participated in the consultative meeting. They discussed possibilities on improvement and expansion of broadcast in Kazakh language, and all agreed that the most feasible answer for its resolution is use of satellite channel due to its technology, cost and content.
The following reports were on the carpet for discussion at the meeting:
- Information need for the Kazakh population and international human rights mechanism
by T. Sultan, writer, Ulaanbaatar-Erdem sudlal Institute, Head of Department
- Results of the survey on the national minority rights /Mongolian/
by B. Khishigsaikhan, Human rights researcher
- Media in Bayan-Olgii province and its challenges
by M. Zulkaphil, State University, Head of Department
- Technical opportunities of minority broadcasting /Mongolian/
by T.Gantumur, Director, Radio and Television Broadcasting
- Broadcasting legal Regulation /Mongolian/
by M.Naranbaatar, Senior officer, Communications Regulatory Commission
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