SPEAKER Z.ENKHBOLD MEETS UK AMBASSADOR

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Chairman of the State Great Khural (parliament) Z.Enkhbold Thursday received Ms Catherine Elizabeth Jane Arnold, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Mongolia, in the State House. The Speaker congratulated Ms Arnold on being appointed as the new Ambassador of the UK to Mongolia, and underlined that Mongolia highly spoke its relations with the UK. The UK is the first country among western nations to establish the diplomatic relations with Mongolia in 1963, he highlighted. Mentioning that the inter-parliamentary ties has been actively developing, the Speaker emphasized that the Mongolia-Britain parliamentary group at the State Great Khural is dynamically working to have Mongolian parliamentary delegates visit the UK in 2015. Thanking the Speaker for an audience, the UK Ambassador Ms Arnold said she is glad for becoming the Ambassador to Mongolia in times of the 25th anniversary of the permanent parliament of Mongolia. Ms Arnold said she will be enthusiastic to forward the bilateral relations and cooperation in all sectors. The Ambassador talked about a successful implementation of the program on introducing Cambridge system in the secondary education of Mongolia together with the Mongolia’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Ms Arnold said the Great Britain aspires to continue the fruitful bilateral cooperation in the education, business and economic spheres and to boost collaboration in saving wild nature. At the meeting, the sides also touched upon issues of the bilateral relations and cooperation in the mining, education and stock spheres. Present at the meeting were R.Amarjargal MP, head of the Mongolia-Britain parliamentary-group; D.Gankhuyag, the State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry; and other officials.