DECREE ISSUED TO PROMOTE MONGOLIAN SCRIPT

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The President Ts.Elbegdorj issued Tuesday a decree to augment the official usage of the Mongolian script.
In accordance with the decree, issued welcoming the 100th anniversary of the Revolution for National Freedom, official documents and letters addressed to State Head, Speaker, Prime Minister, cabinet members and other dignitaries of foreign countries must be written in the Mongolian script. To these documents are to be attached their translations into any UN official language or a foreign language of that country. ID cards, marriage certificates, educational certificates and diplomas muist be written in Cyrillic alphabet and Mongolian script both.
The second national program on Mongolian script was approved in 2008. The government was ordered to pay an attention to intensifying an implementation of the program and to conclude it within 2011.
The President's decree will come into force from July 11, 2011.
B.Khuder