Mongolia and Germany hold consultative meeting ahead of cooperation agreement

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2015-10-20 13:42:46

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A consultative meeting ahead of the Mongolia-Germany intergovernmental agreement on developmental policy cooperation ran Monday in Ulaanbaatar.

The sides exchanged views on a present situation of the bilateral economic cooperation and a further policy, after which the Mongolian side made a presentation on projects on supporting sustainable management for minerals, on changes in biological diversities and profits of energy--the priorities of the developmental cooperation between the two countries.

Following the meeting, the parties signed the 2013 agreement on the financial cooperation and the same agreement for 2014/2015 with aims to fortify pledges of the 2014 intergovernmental agreement on the developmental policy. In accordance with the agreements, projects are expected to be implemented to renovate the thermal power stations in Darkhan and Erdenet cities and to construct over-head energy lines between Ulaanbaatar and Dundgobi aimag’s Mandalgobi soum.

Present at the consultative meeting were Kh.Gantsogt, the State Secretary of Mongolia’s Ministry of Finance; representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Green Development and Tourism, Ministry of Mining, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Industry; and the German delegation led by Ms Gisela Hammerschmidt, a director of the Asian Department at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation.

 

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