Deputy Mayor N.Bataa meets Asia Foundation’s president

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Deputy Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city in charge of financial and economic affairs N.Bataa Wednesday received a delegation headed by Mr David Arnold, the president of the Asia Foundation (AF). They have exchanged views on ongoing programs implemented by Ulaanbaatar and the AF and on the further cooperation. Mr Bataa expressed a satisfaction with the implementation of the three projects and with widening of the bilateral cooperation, and then underlined that new cadastres of ger areas have been modified in 153 khoroos (smallest administrative unit) of nine districts with civil participation within one of the AF’s projects. “It has been really highly spoken by UB inhabitants,” he emphasized. The Deputy Mayor also highlighted that there was a big role in working out an economic developmental strategy of Ulaanbaatar. In addition to it, the Ulaanbaatar administration is formulating a program on combating corruption together with the AF, he added. In turn, Mr Arnold emphasized an importance of working out an advanced action plan for realizing the economic developmental strategy of UB. Then he expressed a willingness to collaborate with UB in expanding the UB Business Forum and the Development Corporation of UB.