The House of Parliaments welcomed a high-level delegation from Mongolia on 15 August. Led by the Secretary General of the Mongolian Parliament, Ms. Luvsandorj Ulziisaikhan, the delegation included parliamentary and government officials, as well as representatives from the Swiss Cooperation Office in Mongolia. The delegation visited IPU headquarters to mark the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Mongolia has been a member of the IPU since 1962, and the delegation expressed ongoing commitment to working together, highlighting recent constitutional revisions aimed at advancing human rights and gender equality. Ms. Luvsandorj Ulziisaikhan stated her appreciation to the IPU for ongoing cooperation and assistance in these areas. “Parliaments need to evolve and change with society and the times,” she said.
The MoU outlines the common values and commitments of the two parties towards building strong and democratic parliaments, protecting human rights, achieving gender equality, and promoting overall inter-parliamentary cooperation, as enshrined in the IPU’s five-year Strategy for 2022-2026. The MoU aims to enhance cooperation in areas of common interest to both parties and will take place within the scope of their respective constitutional instruments, mandates and activities. This will include promoting the integration of human rights into parliamentary legislative processes and procedures, and promoting gender equality in all parliamentary structures, methods and work, by building a more gender-sensitive parliament.
