Mongolia Government Officials

The ruling Communist Party expelled seven prominent members and warned five others about misuse of power under deposed hard-line President Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal. The party in April began investigating members for excesses committed under the Stalinist regime of Tsedenbal, who ruled from 1952 to 1984. Bowing to pressure, the Communist Party in March relinquished its 69-year monopoly on power and agreed to multi-party elections.

The former Communist Party of Mongolia conceded its first defeat Wednesday, admitting that the man it dumped as its candidate had won the country's first direct presidential election last Sunday. Budragchaagiin Dashyondon, chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), pledged to respect the reelection of President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat. He told a news conference that Ochirbat had won 57.8% of the vote to 38.7% for his party's candidate, Lodongiyn Tudev.

Mongolia's Communist leaders offered to resign Friday in the face of protests by thousands of people calling for multi-party democracy, East Bloc news agencies reported from the capital Ulan Bator. The East German news agency ADN and the Soviet news agency Tass also said a national referendum will be organized to give the people an opportunity to say whether they had confidence in the Mongolian Parliament, the People's Great Hural.

Chinese President Yang Shangkun concluded a four-day visit to Mongolia on Thursday, declaring his trip to the former Soviet satellite state "a complete success." His summit in Ulan Bator with Mongolian President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat marked a major expansion of Sino-Mongolian economic, political and cultural ties, virtually severed in the early 1960s when Sino-Soviet relations sharply deteriorated.

The Mongolian government will try a Stalinist former prime minister, an ex-president and 10 other former leaders on corruption charges, a government spokesman said. No court date has been announced for the 12 Communist hard-liners who once ran Mongolia. Among them are former Prime Minister Dumaagiyn Sodnom, who retired in March, 1990, when the Communist Party renounced its monopoly on power and former President Jambyn Batmonh, who left office at the same time.

Mongolian President Jambyn Batmonh submitted a sweeping program of political reform at a Communist Party meeting in Ulan Bator on Monday, including an offer of his own resignation as party leader. In a somber speech to the party's Central Committee, broadcast live on state-run television, Batmonh proposed that he and the entire ruling Politburo resign and that the party hold a special congress April 10 to elect new leaders.

Voters in Mongolia on Sunday gave opposition parties a role in government for the first time in nearly seven decades of Communist rule, according to early results released today. Sunday's vote, the final round of the first free elections ever held in any Asian Communist country, climaxed a hard-fought but peaceful campaign. Rock bands performed for the opposition. Men on horseback handed out leaflets at a Communist rally. Voters in many districts questioned candidates at public forums.

The former Communist Party of Mongolia conceded its first defeat Wednesday, admitting that the man it dumped as its candidate had won the country's first direct presidential election last Sunday. Budragchaagiin Dashyondon, chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), pledged to respect the reelection of President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat. He told a news conference that Ochirbat had won 57.8% of the vote to 38.7% for his party's candidate, Lodongiyn Tudev.

Elections in Communist-ruled Mongolia have given opposition parties nearly 40% of the seats in a key legislative body, according to results released Tuesday. Communist Party chief Gombojavyn Ochirbat, speaking at a news conference in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator, said opposition representatives will be invited to join the new government's Cabinet. This step is "vital for political stability and national unity," he said.

Mongolia's ruling Communist Party chose a new set of reformist leaders today and agreed to give up its monopoly on power. A former trade union president and head of party ideology who had faced official criticism in the early 1980s, Gombojavyn Ochirbat, 61, was named party chief. "This is the beginning of real change in Mongolia," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tepbishiin Chimeddorj told journalists in Ulan Bator, the capital.

The Mongolian government will try a Stalinist former prime minister, an ex-president and 10 other former leaders on corruption charges, a government spokesman said. No court date has been announced for the 12 Communist hard-liners who once ran Mongolia. Among them are former Prime Minister Dumaagiyn Sodnom, who retired in March, 1990, when the Communist Party renounced its monopoly on power and former President Jambyn Batmonh, who left office at the same time.

Elections in Communist-ruled Mongolia have given opposition parties nearly 40% of the seats in a key legislative body, according to results released Tuesday. Communist Party chief Gombojavyn Ochirbat, speaking at a news conference in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator, said opposition representatives will be invited to join the new government's Cabinet. This step is "vital for political stability and national unity," he said.

Voters in Mongolia on Sunday gave opposition parties a role in government for the first time in nearly seven decades of Communist rule, according to early results released today. Sunday's vote, the final round of the first free elections ever held in any Asian Communist country, climaxed a hard-fought but peaceful campaign. Rock bands performed for the opposition. Men on horseback handed out leaflets at a Communist rally. Voters in many districts questioned candidates at public forums.

The ruling Communist Party expelled seven prominent members and warned five others about misuse of power under deposed hard-line President Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal. The party in April began investigating members for excesses committed under the Stalinist regime of Tsedenbal, who ruled from 1952 to 1984. Bowing to pressure, the Communist Party in March relinquished its 69-year monopoly on power and agreed to multi-party elections.

Mongolia's ruling Communist Party chose a new set of reformist leaders today and agreed to give up its monopoly on power. A former trade union president and head of party ideology who had faced official criticism in the early 1980s, Gombojavyn Ochirbat, 61, was named party chief. "This is the beginning of real change in Mongolia," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tepbishiin Chimeddorj told journalists in Ulan Bator, the capital.

Mongolian President Jambyn Batmonh submitted a sweeping program of political reform at a Communist Party meeting in Ulan Bator on Monday, including an offer of his own resignation as party leader. In a somber speech to the party's Central Committee, broadcast live on state-run television, Batmonh proposed that he and the entire ruling Politburo resign and that the party hold a special congress April 10 to elect new leaders.

Chinese President Yang Shangkun concluded a four-day visit to Mongolia on Thursday, declaring his trip to the former Soviet satellite state "a complete success." His summit in Ulan Bator with Mongolian President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat marked a major expansion of Sino-Mongolian economic, political and cultural ties, virtually severed in the early 1960s when Sino-Soviet relations sharply deteriorated.

Mongolia's Communist leaders offered to resign Friday in the face of protests by thousands of people calling for multi-party democracy, East Bloc news agencies reported from the capital Ulan Bator. The East German news agency ADN and the Soviet news agency Tass also said a national referendum will be organized to give the people an opportunity to say whether they had confidence in the Mongolian Parliament, the People's Great Hural.