Dashiin Byambasüren

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Dashiin Byambasüren
Дашийн Бямбасүрэн
15th Prime Minister of Mongolia
In office
11 September 1990 – 21 July 1992
General SecretaryGombojavyn Ochirbat
Büdragchaagiin Dash-Yondon
Preceded bySharavyn Gungaadorj
Succeeded byPuntsagiin Jasrai
Personal details
Born (1942-06-20) June 20, 1942 (age 79)
Binder sum of Khentii Province, Mongolia

Dashiin Byambasüren (Mongolian: Дашийн Бямбасүрэн; born June 20, 1942 in Binder, Khentii) is a Mongolian politician who was Prime Minister of Mongolia from 11 September 1990 to 21 July 1992, the first one to be appointed by a democratically elected parliament, as a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. He comes from a Buryat background.[1] He is married with six children.[2]

Political career[]

An economist, Byambasüren served as the chief of the State Statistical Office and the Institute of Management, although his influence initially waned after the fall of his mentor Jambyn Batmönkh. By 1989 he had risen to the position of deputy head of the Council of Ministers and after the 1990 elections (which were largely democratic) he was chosen as the final Prime Minister of the Mongolian People's Republic.[3] His ministry was noted as reforming[4] but also as something of a technocracy, featuring a number of former communists who had altered their positions to suit the new mood of the country.[5] However he also developed a reputation for diplomacy, visiting Germany, Belgium and France, as well as Moscow and a first visit by a Mongolian leader to China for over thirty years, during the course of his Premiership.[2] He was succeeded in 1992 by Puntsagiin Jasrai. Byambasüren sought to improve Mongolia's external relations and worked particularly closely with Japan, which, along with the World Bank, pledged $320 million to Mongolia under his premiership.[6]

He left the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in October 1992, criticizing its continuing hegemony in the country and its close links to communist parties elsewhere.[2] He went on to form his own pro-democracy group, the Mongolian Democratic Renaissance Party (Mongolyn Ardqilsan Särgään Mandalyn Nam), in 1994.[2]

Other activities[]

Later Byambasüren was at the forefront of campaigns to stop archaeologists from digging for the remains of Genghis Khan. Byambasüren attacked both the desecration of sacred ground that the digging caused and the private funding of the initiatives.[7] He has also served as a Professor at the Mongolian Academy of Management and Khan Uul University and President of the Mongolian Development Foundation and participated in the Earth Summit 2002.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Morris Rossabi,Modern Mongolia - From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists Archived 2007-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d Profile in German
  3. ^ Stephen Kotkin & Bruce A. Elleman, Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan, p. 265
  4. ^ Rossabi, op cit
  5. ^ Kotkin & Elleman, op cit, pp. 265-266
  6. ^ 'Regional Situations and Relations with Japan: Asia-Pacific'
  7. ^ 'The hunt for Genghis Khan' from bbc.co.uk
  8. ^ 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development
Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Mongolia
11 September 1990 - 21 July 1992 		Succeeded by
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