Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia-OSCE joint committee meets
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held last Friday its 16th meeting of the joint committee in Brussels, Belgium.
Co-chaired by Mr S.Bayartsogt, head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government; and Mr Ugo Astuto, Managing director of the Asia Pacific of the European External Action Service, the joint committee meeting concluded a present situation of the Mongolia-OSCE ties and cooperation, designed prospects of the cooperation and exchanged information on political and socio-economic situations.
The parties exchanged views on regional and global issues, human rights, full utilization of “GSP+” tariff preferences granted to Mongolia, introduction of European norms and standards to all sectors of Mongolian social and economic structures, and discussed issues of the technical assistances from European Union in the framework of the upcoming ASEM Summit to be held in Ulaanbaatar in 2016 as well as the ongoing and future projects and programmes.
A joint statement regarding matters discussed at the meeting was signed by the sides.
Within the joint committee meeting, the sub-committee on trade and investment held a meeting under leadership of Ms A.Ariunaa, deputy director of the Economic cooperation department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and Mr Peter Berz, Head of Unit for relations with Far East of the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission.
