On August 21, MP and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ts.Munkh-Orgil met with Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, Mr.D.Donskoy in Moscow, exchanging views on bilateral cooperation policy and current issues. They are also heads of Mongolian and Russian parts of the Mongolian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
The parties expressed their appreciation that in the first half of this year, the bilateral trade turnover increased by 32 percent, reaching to USD561 million and underlined that there is great potential to increase trade in chemical, metallurgy, machinery, equipment, and textiles.
During the meeting, the parties agreed to organize the 21st regular meeting of the intergovernmental commission in the second half of October 2017, holding meetings of sub-commissions including agriculture, environment, transportation and regional sub-commissions and working groups in nearest future. The parties talked about collaboration in organizing Mongolian Prime Minister's visit in the fourth quarter of this year.
The preparation works regarding a working visit of the President of Mongolia to the Russian Federation on September 6-7, 2017 and participation in the Eastern Economic Forum were also discussed during the meeting, expressing their views on the agenda of the visit and the documents to be established.
Delegations of the President’s visit will include Minister of Road and Transportation Development D.Ganbat, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry P. Sergelen. Therefore cooperation issues of those sectors were also touched during the Foreign Minister Ts.Munkh-Orgil’s meeting. For example, they talked about preparations for the supply of vaccines against infectious diseases from RF within the second phase of the "Mongolian Livestock Program" and buying wheat and hay. The sides also finalized the draft of an intergovernmental agreement between Mongolia and RF on “Conditions of Rail freight transportation”, agreeing to seek possibilities to sign the agreement during the Presidential visit.
The sides expressed their satisfaction with the current level of tripartite cooperation and confirmed their interest to set up an Investment projection center in Ulaanbaatar in order to activate the cooperation, within the framework of the program on the establishment of Economic Corridor between Mongolia, Russia, and China.

Published Date:2017-08-23