THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF MONGOLIA, PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION

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2012-06-29

International observers agree with the election result

Today, President Elbegdorj received the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia Aleksander Porfiryevich Torshin and delegations. “I’m very pleased that you worked as observers in Parliamentary elections. I would like hear your comments about the election” said the President.

A.P. Torshin conveyed Federation Council Chairwoman’s greeting to the President Elbegdorj and stated that they agree with the Parliamentary Election result. He said “We have worked as observers for the elections in Commonwealth of Independent States and many other countries. We haven’t seen as highly organized election as this election which provided 100 percent with electronic ballot counting machines and finger detecting devices. We expected that elderly people would have some problems with the devises but it wouldn’t. We worked at 10 electoral sub commissions in Ulaanbaatar city, province and soum. At seven a.m. of the day of an election voters have already gathered near the polling station. Observers from all the political parties and foreign observers were present at the polling stations. We are very thankful that you gave foreign observers the opportunity to monitor the election. Each polling station where we arrived and monitored, were highly organized. We are strongly convinced that each voter had the opportunity to vote independently. We haven’t noticed any contradictions and failure and other foreign observers agree with it. I would like to assure that the parliamentary election of Mongolia was absolutely fair and in accordance with the law”.
Also A.P. Torshin the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council expressed his wishes to further improve existing bilateral relations and partnership and hope that new Parliament and Government would pay close attention on this.
“I’m very satisfied to hear your thoughts about the current elections. Your participation in our election expresses the high importance of the relations of two countries. We pay close attention to strengthen the relations and partnership with our northern neighbor. Soon a new Parliament and new Government will be formed in Mongolia and the President should have specific duties and responsibilities on this. I would like to wish that new Members of Parliament and the new Members of Government pay more attention in expanding bilateral relations in traditional as well as new directions. I met with Vladimir Putin the President of Russian Federation during the 12th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization /SCO/. He expressed interest to jointly implement large scale projects with our Government. I appreciate once again your participation in our Parliamentary election as foreign observers” said President Elbegdorj.