RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY VISITING MONGOLIA

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At an invitation of Mongolia’s National Security Council secretary Ts.Enkhtuvshin, his counterpart from Russia Nikolai Patrushev is visiting Mongolia these days. During his visit here, the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia will be received by the President of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj, and will hold negotiations with his counterpart of Mongolia Ts.Enkhtuvshin. After the meeting, Security Council Secretaries of the two countries will have a press conference to inform the media on the meeting. Prior to this, Mr Patrushev visited to Mongolia in 2009 to discuss the cooperation plans of the two Security Councils for 2010-2011. Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev was Director of the Russian Federal Security Service, the successor organization to the Committee for State Security (KGB), from 1999 to 2008, and he has been Secretary of the Security Council of Russia since 2008. Patrushev, a general in Russia's Army and a PhD in law, had been received a number of national awards, including Hero of the Russian Federation.