Negotiations are underway to allow Mongolian and South Korean citizens to receive 90-day visas when entering each other’s countries, as opposed to the current short-term visas issued to citizens.

The National Council for Regulating External Propaganda and Cultural Relations of Mongolia have reviewed its activities run in 2008 and approved a plan for 2009.

Corruption and bureaucracy in government were the main issues discussed at a meeting between Government members and representatives of government organizations as part of the program to mark 100 days of the present Government.

Mongolia was ranked the 58th easiest country in which to do business out of 181 countries surveyed in an annual report by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. Last year, it was ranked 55th out of 174 countries surveyed.

Mongolian officials report that oil imported from China burns cleaner than the oil normally received from Russia.