HEADS OF MONGOLIA-CANADA GROUPS MEET

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ One of the Vice chairmen of the State Great Khural and head of the Mongolia-Canada inter-parliamentary group R.Gonchigdorj met on Thursday the leader of the Canada -Mongolia friendship group of Canadian parliament Mr Brad Trost. Mr Gonchigdorj wished the guest a pleasant stay here and congratulated him on being elected to lead the friendship group. He noted that the relations of the two countries are intensively developing and expressed a satisfaction with a regularity of high level interactions between Mongolia and Canada, "for example, the visits of the Governor-General David Johnston and of the Foreign Minister John Baird upgraded the bilateral relations and cooperation". He also stressed that Mongolia considers Canada not only as its important partner in North America but also as the Third neighbor. In response, Mr Trost said he confident that within his leadership the interactions between the two legislative bodies will achieve more success. After this, the side focused on ways of expanding the cooperation. The member of the Canadian parliament Brad Trost was elected in 2004 from the Saskatoon Humboldt electoral district of Canada, and was appointed the head of the Mongolia-Canada inter-parliamentary group last week.