VICE SPEAKER MEETS WITH MS MATVIYENKO

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ With the official visit here, the Chairwoman of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation Ms Valentina Matviyenko received Monday Mr M.Enkhbold, a Vice Speaker of the State Great Khural (parliament) and chairman of the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP). Mr Enkhbold thanked Ms Matviyenko and accompanying her delegation for visiting Mongolia and underlined that the two countries have been maintaining their friendly relations for a long time. In turn, Ms Matviyenko hoped that her visit will significantly contribute to fruitfully continuing the bilateral relations and cooperation, and emphasized an importance of activating the economic and business cooperation. She also said that, as a member of the Board of the “United Russia” leading party at Russian parliament, she attached a great importance to the meeting with the MPP chairman, and added that she will pay great attention to realizing the issues discussed. Then she proposed host a meeting of the two parties' leaders in Moscow. Present at the meeting was Ms D.Oyunkhorol MP, a deputy chairwoman of the MPP faction.