Meeting of NAMBC runs

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A regular meeting of the North America-Mongolia business council /NAMBC/ ran on May 7-8 in Washington, USA. The meeting was opened by T.Zalaa-Uul, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Canada, who gave sent a speech about problems in relations between Mongolia and Canada. After him several officials took the floor including G.Goldhawk, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Mongolia; Piper Anne Wind Campbell, the Ambassador of the USA to Mongolia; B.Bolormaa, the adviser to the Embassy of Mongolia in USA, and Alphonse F. La Porta and Pamela Slutz, former ambassadors of USA to Mongolia. in his speech Mr Zalaa-Uul mentioned that the 40 anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Canada is being marked in 2013 and expressed opinions about problems and perspectives of the Mongolia-Canada relationship. Present at the meeting were also Alain Gendron, the North East Asia Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada /DFAIT/; John Andersen, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance at U.S. Department of Commerce; delegationd of Rio Tinto, Peabody energy corporation, Wagner International and other companies. They shared views on the Mongolian economy, foreign investment environment and cooperation.