MONTSAME AND YONHAP NEWS AGENCIES RENEW AGREEMENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On July 8, a ceremony to extend the agreement on cooperation between MONTSAME National News Agency and the Yonhap News Agency of the Republic of Korea. The agreement extension was inked by the Executive director of Yonhap Mr Lee Hong-Ki and the MONSTAME Director-General Mr A.Baatarkhuyag in July 8. Present were also the foreign relations manager Kim Su Jin and the political analyst An Young So. The cooperation between the news Agencies started on June 14 of 1985, when a director of Yonhap Agnecy in charge of articles Mr Chun Chon sent Olympic Games program and some survey materials to the then-director of MONTSAME L.Zantav. The cooperation has been expanding since then. On the further perspectives of the cooperation, A.Baatarkhuyag said there had been a difficult situation due to the Cold War era, but has been prospering since the 1990’s. “The extension of agreement manifests the common interests of both agencies to develop the cooperation and relations. We have a possibility to closely cooperate, since we do not have any conflict of interest”, he noted.