Foreign minister deposits instrument of ratification to the UN

Today Minister for Foreign Minister H.E. L. Purevsuren has deposited its instrument of ratification to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Kumamoto, 10 October 2013) and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (New York, 19 December 2011) with the UN Secretary-General in New York. The treaty will go into effect after 30 days.

The event was a attended by the Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, Ambassador S. Sukhbold, Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs and Mr. Santiago Villalpando, Chief of the Treaty Section, Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations.