MINISTER OF DEFENSE ATTENDS INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF TURKISH PRESIDENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Defense and head of the Mongolian side of the Mongolia-Turkey intergovernmental committee for economic and commercial cooperation D.Bat-Erdene MP together with Mongolian Ambassador to Turkey B.Batkhishig have participated in inauguration ceremony of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as President of Turkey. At the ceremony on Thursday in the Presidential House, the former and the new Presidents addressed the guests from foreign countries. During a reception held after the ceremony, the Defense Minister Mr Bat-Erdene met with Mr Erdogan and congratulated him on becoming the new leader of Turkey. Then he met with N.Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan; His Highness Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar; S.Naryshkin, chairman of the State Duma of Russia; M.Myasnikovich, the PM of Belarus; A.Kamilov, the FM of Uzbekistan; and other dignitaries.