DEFENSE MINISTER VISITS TURKEY

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The Defense Minister of Mongolia L.Bold has shared views with his Turkish counterpart Ismet Yilmaz on widening of the bilateral cooperation in the defense and on assistance from Turkey to a reform in Mongolia's Armed Forces. Mr .Bold also has handed over a letter sent by Mongolia's PM to the Turkish Premier expressing a condolence over deaths of many people due to earthquake in Hakkari province. Then the Defense Ministers have signed an intergovernmental agreement on the financial cooperation in the military sector. An intergovernmental protocol on implementing financial assistance has been inked by Colonel Kh.Batsaikhan, a head of the Regulation Department of Policy Implementation of the Defense Ministry of Mongolia, and by Colonel Geksel Ahchi, a head of the Industrial and Foreign Relations Department of Turkey's Defense Ministry. The Minister also has met Murad Bayar, the Undersecretary for Defense Industries, then the Mongolian delegation visited "Yakupoglu" military uniform factory and “MKEK” Corporation for mechanic and chemical industries. This was a last leg of the official visit of the Mongolian delegation led by Mr Bold to Turkey on October 19-21 at invitation of Ismet Yilmaz.

B.Khuder