Speaker meets US Ambassador

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Chairman of the State Great Khural (parliament) Z.Enkhbold Monday received Ms Jennifer Zimdahl Galt, the US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mongolia. The Speaker talked about a regular meeting of the General Agreement on Trade and Investment held in 2015 and the first consultative meeting of the Mongolia-USA Economic Policy. A regular consultative meeting between Mongolia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US Department of State ran this September, he added and expressed a satisfaction with an active cooperation between the two countries. The Mongolia-USA-Japan trilateral meeting successfully ran during the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly, he said, noting an importance of regularizing this trilateral meeting. In response, Ms Galt thanked the Speaker for the audience and said the Mongolia-USA relations and cooperation have been developing in many sectors, adding that, during her office term she will make efforts to boost the bilateral ties. Present at the meeting were also O.Baasankhuu MP, a member of the Mongolia-USA inter-parliamentary group at the State Great Khural; and other officials.