The country celebrated the Day of Honour for the Victims of Political Repression for the 29th year, with the Prime Minister and other relevant figures paying their respects and laying wreaths at the Monument to the Political Repressed

The National Satellite Communications Project will be presented to the National Security Council and submitted to Parliament as the first of 14 mega-projects under the Mongolian Government's 2024-2028 Action Programme

A unified information system for foreign nationals was developed and the Mongolian Immigration Agency began issuing visas on invitation for all categories electronically, as part of the project implemented by the Asian Development Bank

Russian President Putin was welcomed in the country, which ignored calls to arrest him on the basis of an international arrest warrant, despite Ukraine's urging; the European Union expressed concern that Mongolia would not execute the arrest warrant

Some 527.000 foreign tourists visited Mongolia from January to August 2024, generating revenues reaching USD 1 billion, according to the Ministry of Roads and Transport