T.GANDI RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT OF FINLAND

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia / On Thursday, August 31, the President of the Republic of Finland Mrs. Tarja Halonen received T.Gandi, the Minister of Social Welfare and Labor and head of the Mongolian side of the Mongolia-Finland intergovernmental commission. T.Gandi mentioned about issues discussed at the 11th intergovernmental commission meeting on financial organizations supporting the bilateral cooperation, bilateral agreements and developing collaboration between entities and localities in tourism, forestry, mining, geological research, environment protection, pure technologies and breeding reindeers. She expressed a willingness to get acquainted with activities and system of Finnish social welfare, care organizations, social welfare for elders and their standards. The Minister also put forward proposals to the Finnish side to implement a joint project on saving Gobi bear with support of the “Fin Fund” foundation, to introduce European standards in Mongolia at labor safety, to establish a laboratory of hygiene and to study experience of Finland in agricultural farming.

B.Khuder