A new parliament in Mongolia has been sworn in following the elections two weeks ago in which the Communists achieved a landslide victory.

The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party won seventy-two of the seventy-six seats to recover a position of dominance it has not held since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In a speech to the new assembly, President Natsagiin Bagabandi appealed to MPs to form a government quickly in order to tackle pressing issues facing the country.

Parliament is expected to begin debating nominations for prime minister tomorrow Thursday.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service