Standing committee head meets US Ambassador

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Head of the parliamentary Standing committee on environment, food and agriculture S.Batbold Monday received Ms Piper Anne Wind Campbell, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to Mongolia. ________________________________________ Expressing the satisfaction with meeting the US Ambassador, the Standing committee head underlined the Mongolia-USA relations and cooperation have been developing in many spheres. He thanked the Board of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for making a decision to involve Mongolia in the second Compact Contract, and then said the previous project has been implemented successfully. Mr Batbold emphasized Mongolia is working to make the agriculture and food priorities of the national economy although the mining sphere plays a crucial role in it, so the country intends to augment the meat production and to export it to foreign countries. Thanking the Standing committee head for an audience, the US Ambassador pointed out the MCA’s next project is about to be realized in Mongolia. So, Ms Campbell recommended that Mongolia now should analyze factors causing difficulties to the national economy because the project will be implemented at a high level in terms of time and development range. The Ambassador said she is confident the US side will deepen the ties and collaboration with Mongolia in it.