DEFENSE MINISTER IS VISITING TURKEY

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia’s Minister of Defense Ts.Tsolmon MP Wednesday held a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mr Ismet Yilmaz in Istanbul city. Tsolmon noted that the Mongolia-Turkey cooperation in defense has been developing successfully, and touched upon issues of augmenting a quota of Mongolian cadets to study in Turkey and expanding the collaboration in the defense industry. He also asked his colleague to increase a size of assistance to our Armed Forces and to aid Mongolia in renovating an airport of Kharkhorin and developing a tourism. In response, Turkey’s Defense Minister said it is possible to increase the number of the Mongolian cadets and promised to seek a possibility of adding the assistance for the Mongolian Armed Forces. He recommended that the Mongolian side pass to his side a feasibility study of the Kharkhorin airport’s repair. After this meeting, Mr Tsolmon visited an exhibition of international defense industry in Istanbul and met authorities of some companies, which supply military products to Mongolia, and inked together with Turkish Minister the intergovernmental agreement on the cooperation in industrial sector. Present were also B.Batkhishig, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Turkey; E.Monkh-Ochir, the General Consul of Mongolia in Istanbul, and officials of Mongolia’s Defense Ministry.