AKIPRESS.COM - After almost 90 years, Taiwan’s Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission is set to close its doors, South China Morning Post reported.

Taiwanese officials confirmed on Tuesday that the commission, which promotes Mongolian and Tibetan culture and exchanges, would be phased out before the end of the year as part of restructuring efforts to streamline the island’s government.

Some of its functions would be absorbed by the expanded Department of Hong Kong, Macao, Mongolia and Tibet Affairs under the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan’s top government agency on its policy dealings with Beijing.

“As part of the phase-out plans, the cabinet [has not] allocated a budget for the commission for next year,” cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung said.

The cabinet would formally submit a phase-out bill before the legislative review of the government’s fiscal budget for 2018, which is scheduled for the end of the month, he said.