Former U.S. Defense Secretary Visits Mongolia

Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold met here Saturday with visiting former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. According to the governmental press service, the two discussed cooperation between their countries in international peacekeeping operations. The service said that Rumsfeld thanked Ulan Bator for its contributions to peacekeeping efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. No more details were released about the ongoing trip of Rumsfeld, who visited Mongolia in 2005 as defense secretary.