L.PUREVSUREN FM VISITS FRANCE

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Foreign Minister of Mongolia Mr L.Purevsuren paid a visit to France on June 11-12, 2015. Within the visit, Mr Purevsuren has met with his counterpart of France Mr Laurent Fabius, exchanging views on the Mongolia-France relations and cooperation, and noted about a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic relations. Mentioning that the Mongolia-France ties have been developing in the tourism, culture and other spheres, Mr Fabius pointed the countries have a chance to enrich the cooperation with economic contents, and then expressed a willingness to expand the collaboration in the sectors of agriculture and space technology. In turn, Mr Purevsuren emphasized Mongolia and France have the history of hundreds-year of ties except the formal diplomatic relations, and underlined an importance of widening the economic relations with France, a Third Neighbor of Mongolia, by exploiting all opportunities of the cooperation in agriculture, culture and arts and supporting activities of the private sector. The sides have concurred to collaborate in introducing a gene pool of top breeding of French cows in the breeding of Mongolian cows, training experts, rendering technical assistance to Mongolia, saving livestock gene pool and supplying veterinary equipment and facilities to Mongolia. Apart from this, the sides noted the cultural ties play an important role in the bilateral relations, and agreed to cooperate in the legal sphere of films. Mr Fabius supported proposals of the Mongolian side, underlining an importance of implementing high-level mutual visits in frames of the diplomatic relations’ anniversary. Besides exchanging on international issues, the French side said it backed Mongolia at an election of the UN Human Rights Council. During the visit, Mr Purevsuren has met Mr Frederik Bredain, the president of the French National Center of Film Industry, sharing views on the cooperation. They have agreed to co-organize an international seminar in Mongolia on film policy and to learn French experience in legal environment of films.