Mongolia to boost transport ties with Eurasian Economic Union

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Third Session of the UN Ministerial Conference on Transport is being held in Moscow on December 5-9. A Mongolian delegation headed by Minister of Road and Transport Development D.Ganbat is paying a working visit to Russia between the 7th and 9th. As a part of the visit, Minister D.Ganbat held a business meeting with the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Union, A.O.Junusov on December 7. Present were, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Russian Federation B.Delgermaa. The sides touched upon the follow-up actions of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between Mongolia and the Eurasian Economic Union, specifically, the further development of transport cooperation between Mongolia and the EEU member states, cooperation in realization of projects agreed in the margin of the Programme on Establishing Mongolia-Russia-China Economic Corridor, alleviation of conditions for Mongolian transit transportation going through territories of EEU members, and strengthening the carrying capacity of transit transport of Mongolia. The dignitaries also agreed on setting up a working group in approximate future to prepare the draft of cooperation document in order to lay the legal foundation for intensifying the cooperation in the transportation sector.