Mongolia Brief September 3, 2014 Part II
President
to visit Russia May of 2015
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME/) The President Ts.Elbegdorj is to visit Russian
Federation in May of 2015.
He decided as
such when the Russian President Mr Putin invited him to Russia during their
individual meeting. The leader of Mongolia considered that it would be
appropriate for him to visit Russia on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of
Great Victory in The Great Patriotic War, to be celebrated on May 9 in 2015.
Mongolian
National Broadcaster to cooperate with Russia Today
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME) In a scope of the working visit of Russian President
Putin, the Mongolian National Broadcaster and the “Russia Today” international
news agency, a federal entity of Russian Federation, inked the cooperation
memorandum on September 3.
The purpose is
to expand the Mongolia-Russian cooperation and professional relations between
these media organizations. Assuring it, M.Naranbaatar, a director-general
of MNB, and the vice general editor of "Russia Today" agency
P.V.Andreev signed the memorandum. Prior to it, a meeting ran to discuss the
collaboration maters such as an enhancement of the media industry environment,
a promotion of authenticity and professionalization of cultural, humanitarian,
economic, sports and political news, a strengthening of the information stream,
an adoption of frameworks and projects aimed to consolidate the two peoples'
mutual understanding and collaboration.
Standing
committees share opinions on environmental issues
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME) G.Bayarsaikhan MP and chairman of Standing committee on
environment, food and agriculture received Wednesday Mr M.V.Slipenchuk, a
member of State Duma of Russian Federation.
G.Bayarsaikhan
thanked Mr Sllipenchuk for visiting Mongolia and then shared with him opinions
on two Standing committees' operations and cooperation in building a joint
wood-processing factory. The parties consider the latter is of high importance
for Mongolia in preserving and improving its forest reserves, as the country
imports great amount of wood and heavy logs from Russia.
A matter on
protection of cross-border rivers' was also discussed during the meeting.
Agreement
signed on non-visa travel between Mongolia and Russia
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME) Mongolia and Russia’s high officials signed 15 important
documents on September 3. Among them is the agreement on non-visa travelling
between the two countries, signed by the two FMs L.Bold and S.Lavrov.
The other
documents are the agreement on cooperation in civil air transportation, and in
development of Ulaanbaatar Railways, signed by A.Gansukh, Minister of road and
transportation, and by V.I.Yakunin, the director of state-owned “Russian
Railways” JSC, also agreements on cooperation in construction sector and in
improving economic relations, as well as a cooperation memorandum between MIAT
and Aeroflot companies, signed by their directors.
President
Elbegdorj about visit of his Russian counterpart
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME) The leader of Mongolia Mr Ts.Elbegdorj Wednesday gave a
report to the media on the working visit of Mr V.Putin, the Russian
Federation's President after holding with him a tete-a-tete meeting and
expanded talks.
Mr Elbegdorj
said they exchanged views on the bilateral relations and reached important
agreements. Noting that the Mongolia-Russia relations are friendly and peaceful,
Mr Elbegdorj expressed satisfaction with the visit of Mr Putin in times of
celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Khalkh River Battles Victory.
The
Mongolia-Russia friendly cooperation continued in peaceful times through the
great construction works, "we consider that our friendly ties are the
valuable heritage and great achievements". "We see Mr Putin’s visit
as opening of a new page in the bilateral relations," he underlined.
Mr Elbegdorj
also said they shared views on the fundamentals of the Mongolia-Russia
relations, on urgent problems, on the cooperation in transit transportation,
trade and economy, finance, investment and humanitarian spheres, international
and regional trilateral ties, and then reached specific outcomes.
“The working
visit of Mr Putin took a very short time but it ran fruitfully and with a vital
content. The two sides' governments, organizations and entities have signed 15
agreements, protocols, memorandums and joint documents, which represent a high
importance and results of the visit. I want to emphasize that the countries
have completely tackled the visa-free traveling of peoples,” Mr Elbegdorj said.
The countries
also reached agreements to reform the railway sector and to augment the great
construction and transport by establishing a partnership agreement on the
Ulaanbaatar Railway reforms and developmental strategy. The sides also talked
about establishing a trilateral agreement among Mongolia, Russia and China
on railway transit transportation as well as Mongolia-Russia intergovernmental
agreement on terms of railway transit transportation.
“We have
noticed a deep gap in the ratio of trade turnover between our countries, so we
considered as necessity to increase the bilateral trade turnover to 10 billion
US dollars by 2020,” Mr Elbegdorj underlined.
He said
Mongolia proposed launching talks on allowing Mongolia to export its products
to Russia’s market without taxes and customs for 20 years.
The parties
also agreed to expand the ties and collaboration of the organizations of
sports, media, arts, culture and to establish joint training centers and
schools, the President said.
Expressing a
satisfaction with broadening of the bilateral traditional relations and
cooperation in military and technical spheres, Mr Elbegdorj said they discussed
an issue of having the Mongolian Armed Forces’ representatives take part in a
military parade for the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War to be
celebrated in 2015.
Mr Elbegdorj
expressed a satisfaction with an acceptance of the Russian side of Mongolian
proposals to organize a trilateral high-level meeting in Ulaanbaatar on the
regional security and to cooperate within the international and regional
organizations.
The working
visit of Mr Putin significantly contributed to the bilateral friendly relations
and cooperation and opened a new chapter in the ties, said Mr Elbegdorj and
invited his counterpart to pay a state visit to Mongolia.
"Rosneft
wants to widen market in Mongolia"
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME) The President of the Russian President Vladimir Putin
said it during a joint statement on Wednesday within his working visit here.
Expressing a
satisfaction with visiting Mongolia in coincidence of the 75th anniversary of
the Khalkh River Battles Victory, Mr Putin said he and his Mongolian counterpart
will reveal soon a perspective for the further cooperation.
“This
cooperation will focus on creating new joint factories, boosting the bilateral
trade and resuming the traditional cooperation,” Mr Putin said. The countries
will also cooperate in the air transportation sector, so the parties inked a
protocol and memorandum on collaborating in the civil aviation sphere, he
added.
“Mr Elbegdorj
mentioned about an unbalanced situation in the bilateral trade during the
official talks. Our countries will work on supplying Mongolian-made products to
Russia and cancelling the taxes over agricultural raw materials from Mongolia,”
Mr Putin said. Mongolia can supply animal-originated products to Russia if they
satisfy sanitary requirements.
Mr Putin also
underlined an importance of the regional cooperation and said the two
Presidents managed to tackle many issues of the economic ties.
President
Elbegdorj holds individual meeting with Russian counterpart
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 3 (MONTSAME) The President of Mongolia Mr Ts.Elbegdorj Wednesday held
an individual meeting with his Russian counterpart Mr Vladimir Putin in the Ceremonial
Ger Palace at State House.
Mr Elbegdorj
noted that this year the peoples of Mongolia and Russia are jointly celebrating
the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Khalkh River Battles, and emphasized
that the Mongolia-Russia relations faced many historic challenges. Then Mr
Elbegdorj welcomed the President Putin and wished him a successful visit.
In response, Mr
Putin expressed a gratitude to him for the warm welcome and emphasized that the
Victory in the Khalkh River Battles is one of the brightest pages in the
history of relations between the two countries. He appreciated President
Elbegdorj's invitation to visit Mongolia, which gave opportunities to
discuss important issues related to the bilateral relations between our
countries.
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