ICA ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL DIRECTOR VISITING

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Regional Director of the International Co-operative Alliance’s (ICA) Asia Pacific office Mr Balasubramanian Iyer is paying a working visit to Mongolia. On Monday, Mr Iyer started the visit by holding official meeting with Mr N.Enkhbold MP, the president of the Mongolian National Unified Association of Co-operatives. Starting the meeting, Mr Enkhbold congratulated Mr Iyer on visiting Mongolia after being appointed on the position, and then introduced to him a present situation of the co-operative’s development in Mongolia and governmental works for supporting the movement of co-operatives. In addition the parties exchanged views on role of co-operatives in realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) put forward by the UN, and the collaboration between co-operatives and supporter organizations in ensuring the co-operatives’ development. The sides also discussed an importance of developing the direct ties among co-operative organizations, and reached an agreement to do some works for this. Mr Iyer interested in a legal regulation for co-operatives. In response, Mr Enkhbold introduced to Mr Iyer a bill on co-operatives which is about to be submitted to parliament. The ICA Regional Director granted an invitation to Mr Enkhbold to attend and chair the 11th session of the ICA Asia-Pacific Region to be held in September in Indonesia.