State Secretary D.Davaasuren meets Secretary for Relations of the Holy See
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D. Davaasuren, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who was
attending the 25th OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Milan, Italy met with
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States within
the Holy See’s Secretariat of State,
on December 6.
At the meeting, State
Secretary D.Davaasuren expressed an interest to co-organize an exhibition on
historical and memorial documents within the framework of expanding bilateral
cooperation in culture and education and invited a representative from Vatican
for ‘Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace’ to be held in Ulaanbaatar next June.
In turn, Paul Richard Gallagher mentioned his satisfaction with developing relations and cooperation of the two countries, highly appraised Mongolia’s efforts to strengthen international peace and solidarity and pledged to work for sending the country’s representative to the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace.
Mongolia
and the Holy See established the diplomatic relations on April 4, 1992. The
Vatican’s side handed over a copy of the Pope Innocent IV’s letter sent to
Mongolian Khaan Guyeg and a copy of the letter of Khaan Guyeg sent to Pope
Innocent IV to Mongolian side in 2017 and 2018 respectively. They are now being
preserved at the Museum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kharkhorum
Museum of Uvurkhangai aimag.