Dashiin Byambasüren
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Dashiin Byambasüren (Mongolian: Дашийн Бямбасурэн; born June 20, 1942 in Binder, Khentii) is a former Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician who served as the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia. He comes from a Buryat background.[1]
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.[2] His ministry was noted as reforming[3] 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.[4] He was succeeded in 1992 by Puntsagiin Jasrai. Byambasüren sought to improve Mongolia's external relations and worked particularly closely with Japan who, along with the World Bank, pledged $320 million to the country under his premiership.[5]
In more recent years Byambasüren has been at the forefront of campaigns against moves by teams of archaeologists to dig 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.[6] 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.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Morris Rossabi, Modern Mongolia - From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists
- ^ Stephen Kotkin & Bruce A. Elleman, Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan, p. 265
- ^ Rossabi, op cit
- ^ Kotkin & Elleman, op cit, pp. 265-266
- ^ 'Regional Situations and Relations with Japan: Asia-Pacific'
- ^ 'The hunt for Genghis Khan' from bbc.co.uk
- ^ 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development
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| Preceded by Sharavyn Gungaadorj |
Prime Minister of Mongolia 1990-09-11 - 1992-07-21 |
Succeeded by Puntsagiin Jasrai |
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| NAME | Dashiin Byambasüre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Byambasüren; Дашийн Бямбасурэн (Mongolian) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Mongolia from 1990 to 1992 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942-06-20 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Binder, Khentii, Mongolia |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
