The purpose of the agreement is to create a legal framework for facilitating trade and transport, coordinating transport types, promoting cooperation in road transport and jointly implementing international standards and recommendations.

Mongolia has established intergovernmental agreements on international road transport with Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, DPRK, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Latvia, and Hungary since 1993.

Officials reported that transit transportation reached 3.4 million tons a year. In recent years, exports and imports are continuing to increase and transportation volume is on the rise, railway transportation has grown by 15 percent to MNT 616 billion as of 2018.

However, the capacity of Mongolia’s transportation has reached its peak and the spokesman of the Ulaanbaatar Railway JV said “Our capacity to receive and transport reached its peak. Now it is time to make technological innovations”. The international delegations also acknowledged this. “The transit route was relatively slow in 2017 but increased sharply after the 2018 Beijing meeting. However, we are worried that there will not be enough capacity to receive this while the freight is increasing. The volume of transit cargo from Russia to China is rapidly rising,” said the Secretary-General of the International Railtransport Committee.

Certain proportion of trade turnover has to come to Mongolia
In 2018, the number of transit transportation routes from Russia to Asia to the port of Erlian via Mongolia hiked; Mongolia accounts for 90 percent of the total transit shipping order. It is expected to increase continuously.

The length of the railway line connecting Mongolia to Russia and China is 110 km long. It is 533 km shorter than the Kazakhstan transit railway and 748 km closer than the Trans-Manchurian corridor. Therefore, a certain proportion of trade turnover has to come to Mongolia, which has led to the peak load.

Khaan Quest is a multinational exercise co-sponsored by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and hosted annually by the Mongolian Armed Forces. Khaan Quest 2019 is the latest in a continuing series of exercises designed to promote regional peace and security. This year’s exercise marks the 17th anniversary of this training event.

Khaan Quest 2019 consists of a UN peacekeeping operations command-post exercise, a company training event, a staff training event, a field training event, and a critical enabler capability enhancement event at the Five Hills Training Area, all of which will focus on UN and international peacekeeping and stability operations. During these portions of the exercise, Mongolian, U.S., and multinational forces will work to enhance interoperability and mission effectiveness in common tactics, techniques, and procedures in accordance with UN doctrine for peacekeeping operations.

Approximately 220 U.S. personnel and 900 MAF personnel are expected to participate in Khaan Quest 2019, along with approximately 750 personnel from various other nations. This year, the MAF has invited military personnel from various nations including Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Canada, China, Croatia, El Salvador, Fiji, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Moldova, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Togo, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vietnam and Zambia to participate in Khaan Quest 2019.

The purpose of Khaan Quest is to gain UN training and certification for the participants through the conduct of realistic peace support operations, to include increasing and improving UN peacekeeping operations interoperability and military relationships among the participating nations.

Tsedenbal's spot-kick two minutes into the second half meant Mongolia held on to claim a 3-2 aggregate win over Brunei, who had initially cancelled out the visitors' first-leg advantage thanks to a first-half brace from Razimie Ramlli.

The Mongolians are joined in the draw for the next phase of qualifying by Bangladesh, Guam, Malaysia and Cambodia after they came through their respective second-leg encounters on Tuesday.

Cambodia were given a scare when Hassan Bashir netted a first-half penalty to give Pakistan hope of overturning their 2-0 first leg deficit with 45 minutes remaining.

Malaysia, meanwhile, made easy work of Timor-Leste, with Shahrel Fikri scoring a hat-trick in a 5-1 win that completed a 12-2 aggregate success over the two legs.

Jason Cunliffe also scored three as Guam overturned a first-leg loss to oust Bhutan with a 5-0 victory on Tuesday as the United States territory secured a 5-1 aggregate win.

And Bangladesh advanced despite being held to a 0-0 draw by Laos in Dhaka, with their 1-0 win in the first leg last week enough to ensure they go through to the second round.

Sri Lanka will have to wait to learn their fate after their scheduled meeting with Macau was cancelled due to a refusal by the team from the former Portuguese enclave to travel to Colombo for the second leg of their meeting.

Macau, who won the first leg 1-0 in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last Thursday, cited security concerns for their refusal to travel and the matter has been referred to FIFA.

The second phase of Asia's four qualifying rounds for the 2022 World Cup will commence in September, when 40 nations will compete for one of 12 berths in the third phase of the competition.

Asia has four guaranteed places at the finals while Qatar, who are the current Asian champions, qualify automatically as hosts. Another spot at the finals is available via an inter-confederation playoff.

(Reporting by Michael Church, Editing by Toby Davis)

The KRW 564 million-worth project will devise a master plan for strengthening the capability of Mongolia's tourism workforce and a training program based on the master plan, and organize a pilot training session as per the training program.

An international standard system for preparing and upskilling the tourism workforce including hotel staff, guides and others will be created as a result of the project, improving the services provided for tourists and making the tourists contented.

Under the project, South Korean tourism and hospitality professionals will work in Mongolia to formulate the training program and master plan for 2020-2025.

The project is greatly significant to implement the National Tourism Program passed by the cabinet and will make a remarkable contribution to the development of Mongolia’s tourism industry.

The Hu’, the emerging folk metal band of Mongolia, which performs in a new genre so called Hunnu Rock, has been touring in Europe from June 6. The band will be performing in six cities of the United Kingdom namely London, Manchester, Brayton, Glasgow, Bristol from June 11. Even though the concert tickets have been sold out, there are many more Mongolians and British people who are willing to enjoy the band’s concert.

During the meeting, the Embassy of Mongolia in collaboration with the concert's general organizer 'Eleven Seven' studio gave press conference and interviews that attracted 40 reporters of over 20 renowned media organizations such as 'BBC 3 World Music', 'Daily Express', 'BBC Radio 6 Music', 'Daily Telegraph', 'I Newspaper', 'Classic Rock', 'Freelance', 'Forbes', 'Меtro' and 'Record Collector', having free discussions on works of The Hu band and wonder of Mongolian music.

At the event, The Hu band performed its ‘Yu ve Yu ve’ song, that got some 27 million Youtube views in less than a year.

Furthermore, records with signatures of the HU band members were presented to the guests. Since so called 'Hunnu rock' genre include various music genres, it gives opportunity to not only rock music lovers but also others to enjoy listening its songs; thus the HU band has established a contract with the world's popular production to co-work to release four albums within four years.

This year, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Kyrgyzstan, is chairing the SCO meeting. As a security measure, all demonstrations on and in the vicinity of Bishkek’s Gorky Square have been banned from 1-20 June.

During the business forum, Foreign Minister D.Tsogtbaatar delivered a presentation on economic situation of Mongolia, future tendencies, investment environment and opportunities to diversify Mongolia-Singapore economic relations in the non-mining sector. Discussions on topics ‘Energy and Infrastructure’, ‘Tourism and Education’, ‘Real estate and Trade’ and ‘Technology trends’ were organized with participants holding talks on the regulatory framework, entrepreneurship and challenges of the sector. Discussions were moderated by Mongolian delegates and views on connecting entrepreneurs of the countries in renewable energy, infrastructure, education, tourism, construction and fintech were exchanged.

Participants and honored guests highly appreciated the arrangement, highlighting the importance of the event in deepening further cooperation between business communities of the two countries.

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