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Topic Discussion II
Building Public Trust
Elections & Legislatures
Room 3
(19 of 23 pages)
Secondly, effective press relations are found one of the major elements, could
possible effect this. I can say one example in my country. It happened last year that after a merger of two banks,
the Cabinet resigned. One of them was State owned, the second was privately owned. The State owned bank almost
went bankrupt with about 80% of top loans outstanding were bad loans and the government decided to sell it to a
private bank for free. From the economic point of view it was a very bad decision but it was not supported by the
opposition party and realized by the public. The reason was the minority worked very well with the explaining the
negatives of this decision and once people got an idea that the Cabinet made the wrong decision, they didn't change
their mind afterwards when the majority tried to explain the importance of this action. So the Cabinet resigned.
There was a final picture of this. Therefore, the politicians in every political party in Parliament for instance,
and Cabinet members as well, should focus on effective press relations with the public.
Number three, there was a kind of tendency that in order to give better explanations of what is going on or what
is the plan of the government, is crucial. The Government of Mongolia liberalized the press and privatized all
media. We see one positive. The effects could come later on. I mean, from the long-term point of view, it was the
right decision. But in the short term, the negative effects outweighed the positives. In order to make money, the
newspapers wrote all the kind of games in our government's decision and criticized everyone's action. So this was
the negative effect. But of course we will focus on the long-term positive effects. Mongolians say if you repeat
one sentence three times, then it becomes the truth, even if it was a false one. Therefore, we see the importance
of the press and mass media.
I also wanted to support my colleagues from Yemen and the lady from the United Nations, proposing that women's
participation in politics should be increased. This should be one of the major concerns of every government in
the future. About half of the world population, if you don't use this less costly resource for the well being of
every human being, then how can you see the effectiveness of the development process.
I wanted to mention about the Mongolian case -- sorry, Mr. Chairman, just a few words left. Women are highly degraded
in Mongolia. Nowadays, about 70% to 90% of university students are girls. Most of the students studying in Western
countries are girls. So if we don't use this source in the future, how can we achieve our goal. At the end, I wanted
to express my colleague's -- he doesn't speak English so I would like to pass his information to the participants
-- he found three major factors could effect building public trust.
Number one is it is very much dependant upon the implementation of the government reform plans in a local level.
So if the governments of the local governments can work very closely with the public, then he says they can really
gain the public trust. Secondly, the people vote for -- actually, how can I say -- the actual influence of the
government's decision to realize a particular person also influences confidence. Number three, mass media.
Chair: Thank you very much. Now I have two remaining persons to speak. The gentleman over there and the
gentleman over there. We will attempt to ask each of the speakers to make comments and then finish by 11:30 sharp.
Then I give the floor to you.
Dr. Kwabji: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Charmin, I think trust forms -- it's the main foundation of --
my name is Dr. Kwabaji (ph). I'm the leader of the Guyanian Parliament and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs.
Mr. Chairman, trust forms the very foundation of social contract and cooperation and of course social action. Based
on the belief that the social partners can depend on each other in a predictable and credible manner. Thus trust
is an essential ingredient in any interaction, whether in the political, social, economic and whatever level because
it gives mutual comfort to the social partners in their interaction.
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