The higher poverty rate in rural areas, in comparison with the urban areas, is indeed our main concern. We have been implementing the cooperation campaign of rural areas for more than a decade and yet still haven't seen its satisfactory outcome.
Our Parliament is still on course of employment encouragement policy. Accordingly, we have reflected some amendments and alterations on our legal documents and undertaking tasks of increasing job availability. Moreover, we are providing state support to those entities that train and tutor workers and laborers.
Despite the fact that there are obstacles in reaching the Millennium Development Goals that state to reduce poverty by a half by the year of the 2015, Mongolia believes that we have the opportunity and resources.
Dear Colleagues,
The followings are the suggestion for protecting human rights and the poverty elimination:
1. Eliminating poverty without improvement on economy is impossible. Therefore, the rapid economic growth must be ensured first.
2. It is impossible to take measures on poverty elimination and protection of human rights without further development and improvement on social welfare legal frameworks. Therefore, the legal reform should be maintained as the vitally urgent and important goal.
3. There is a great necessity to exploit legal and economic incentives to support interests of individuals and entities to increase job places and employments.
4. Unless we focus national economic capability and foreign aid programs on tackling of poverty extent, we will consume immense time, efforts and amounts. That is why there are extra efforts necessary.
5. Unless we develop infrastructure, we will never depart from urban and rural radical differences.
How, any citizen that lives a great distance from cities, not connected with hubs by electricity, communication and roads, and living remotely from market that is too far for any information to reach, could receive its entitled public service, civil benefits and basic human rights?
I personally thought these are the main objectives for Mongolia and therefore have given my best parliamentarian's efforts to fulfill them.
(The author is Member of the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia )
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