Ulaanbaatar
Agriculture Minister meets Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Ch.Ulaan,
Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry and Head of Mongolian side to
the Mongolia-Vietnam intergovernmental committee, met with Mr.Trinh Dinh Dung,
Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam on December 6.
Mr.Dung noted
that Mongolia and Vietnam traditionally support each other during the
hard time and there are possibilities to expand bilateral cooperation in trade,
economy, investment, culture, education, science and technical fields based on
the strong political ties.
Praising the
increasing frequency of high-level talks and deepening bilateral trust, Mr.
Dung also underlined the importance of implementing the works agreed as a result
of recent 17th intergovernmental committee meeting. As road,
transport and logistic issues are emerged in order to boost actual economic
cooperation, he commended the exchanges of views of certain issues on expanding air
relations and railway and sea transportation cooperation, conducting direct and
charter flights and using a terminal at Vietnamese sea port, during the committee
meeting.
For his part, Ch.Ulaan
expressed his satisfaction that the sides deliberately discussed certain
matters and reached agreement during the 17th meeting of the Vietnam-Mongolia
Intergovernmental Committee for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
The sides agreed to take important
measures to further bolster economic, trade and investment cooperation towards
the goal of USD100 million in trade in the near future and seek a possibility to export agricultural
and mining goods including meat and meat products, leather, wool and cashmere
products and coking and coking coal to Vietnam.
Mongolia is interested in importing rice, coffee, aquatic products, fruits and others from Vietnam, Ch.Ulaan
said.
This year’s
committee produced an actual result that the sides came into a decision to
exchange veterinary quarantine and inspection working groups in January, 2020. Moreover,
they talked to provide required information to investors on time and promote cooperation
of businesspeople of the two countries.
