Ulaanbaatar
Defense Minister meets Russian counterpart
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On April 25, B.Bat-Erdene, Minister of Defense of Mongolia, who was invited to the 6th Moscow Conference on International Security, held a bilateral meeting with Sergey Shoygu, Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Russia.
The meeting was attended by B.Delgermaa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Russia, Mayor-General P.Sukhbat, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Force and other officials from the Mongolian side and A.V.Fomin, Deputy Defense Minister, D.E. Shugaev, Director The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and other officials from the Russian side.
At the meeting, Defense Minister B.Bat-Erdene emphasized on many important events happened in the bilateral defense ties of the two countries since the fifth Moscow Conference on International Security and expressed his gratitude for the Russia's assistance for the Mongolian military and technical reform as well as for preparing qualified military servicemen.
He then expressed his satisfaction with a favorable resolution to enable Mongolian juniors to study at military schools of Russia and to extend the Intergovernmental Agreement on Russia’s military-technical assistance to Mongolia.
Moreover, the Defense Minister noted his willingness to establish cooperation ties with military schools of the two countries, activate the relations between the Mongolian Armed Force and Russian military regions bordering with Mongolia and to get professional support on utilization of some military equipment and facility received through the aid.
For his part, Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu voiced his the regular participation of Mongolian ministers of defense in the annual international conference organized by the Ministry of Defense of Russia and vowed to support proposals brought forward by the Mongolian Defense Minister as well as to continue to strengthen the bilateral defense partnership of the two countries. Also, he kindly received an invitation by the Mongolian Defense Minister to pay an official visit to Mongolia at his convenience.
B.Amarjargal
