Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia and Netherlands hold Foreign Ministries consultative meeting
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and the Netherlands held Wednesday their 2nd consultative meeting in Ulaanbaatar.
It was co-chaired by Mr D.Gankhuyag, State Secretary of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Mr Peter Potman, Director of Asia and Oceania Division at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The parties exchanged information about present political and socio-economic situations in both countries, international and regional issues, making focus on issues concerning bilateral relations and cooperation in trade, investment and economic spheres.
Expressing their aspiration to fortify the bilateral ties, the sides agreed to intensify the cooperation in agriculture through mobilizing the best practices of bilateral cooperation and to combine efforts for augmenting bilateral trade turnover and investments.
The sides also concurred to focus attention to the people-to-people ties and to seek opportunities for boosting the cooperation in all possible sectors including education and culture. In this respect, the countries agreed to concentrate on certain proposals for further proceedings.
One of the western European countries to initially support Mongolian socio-economic reforms, the Netherlands implemented a number of projects with non-refundable aid in Mongolia between 1990 and 2011 which targeted the environmental protection and tourism industry. For example, a project has been carried out to acclimatize takhi (Przewalski's horse), one of the endangered species, in Khustain Nuruu National Park of Mongolia, Tov aimag.
Mongolia and the Netherlands are set to mark the 45th anniversary of their diplomatic relations in 2017.
