Theseries of virtual conferences as a preparation for the 142nd IPU Assembly arecontinuing for the third day. The members of the State Great Hural (Parliament)of Mongolia are participating in these virtual conferences and today’s(29.04.2021) event was attended by Mr. N.Uchral, a member of the State GreatHural, Chair of the Innovation and Digital Policy Standing Committee at theState Great Hural who is a member of the Bureau of the IPU Standing Committeeon UN Affairs and Ms. Ts.Munkhtsetseg, a member of the State Great Hural.

Atthe virtual conference, Ts.Munkhtsetseg MP, has presented a speech on topic of“How the Covid-19 pandemic impacting the inequality?” In her speech, she notedthat the pandemic is further deepening the inequality in the global level. Itis particularly apparent in employment, digital sparsity and specific hardshipon women and obvious in the limited vaccine accessibility. According to her,the countries which have not successfully implemented policies in healthservice, social security, appropriate labor remunerations, fair taxation systemsare hit hard by the COVID-19’s impact on economic sector and public disasters.She concluded her speech saying the pandemic and inequality must be fought byglobal efforts. The presenters and parliament members of other countriesunderlined and expressed agreement in their presentations during the conferencethat the universal solutions and post pandemic recoveries and fulfilling the UNSDG objectives can only be achieved by the active and close cooperation of thecountries in the world.

Today’sconference has discussed the UN75 declaration and heard the latestdevelopments. It also conducted virtual survey from the participants and heardtheir opinions on both the UN75 declaration and the UN SDG and accordingly Mr.N.Uchral MP, and Ms. Ts. Munkhtsetseg MP, have actively taken a partrepresenting Mongolian Parliament.