D.BAT-ERDENE MEETS WITH DEPUTY PM OF TURKEY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Being on a visit to Turkey, the Defense Minister D.Bat-Erdene Thursday met with Mr Bulent Arinc, a Deputy PM of Turkey and head of the Turkish side of the joint committee for economic and trade cooperation. They discussed ways of broadening the bilateral economic and commercial ties, a conclusion of the implementation of a protocol released by the 7th joint committee’s meeting, and further works. Mr Bat-Erdene proposed exploiting the soft-loan of USD 300 million to be given from the Turkish government, attracting investments from Turkey for the leather and skin processing, cooperating in the renewable energy and tourism. Then he asked the Turkish Deputy Premier to support in realizing these works. In response, Mr Arinc thanked the Defense Minister and accompanying him delegation for attending the inauguration ceremony of Turkey’s President and underlined an importance of intensifying the works for the economic and trade cooperation and of hosting a meeting between the Ministries of Economic Development. Present at the meeting were also Mr B.Batkhishig, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Turkey, and E.Monkh-Ochir, the General Consul of Mongolia to Istanbul.