MONGOLIA TO COLLABORATE WITH JAPAN IN ECO-TOURISM

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ A meeting of experts of Mongolia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism and Japan's Ministry of Environment is taking place in Ulaanbaatar. A delegation led by Mr. Akira Nitta, a head of the external cooperation expert of the Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, has arrived here. He is chairing the meeting together with Ts.Damdin, an advisor to Mongolia's Minister of Environment and Tourism. The gathered are sharing information in scope of a memorandum established by the 6th policy consultative meeting of the two ministries in September of 2011, are determining basic principles of projects to be implemented in near future, discussing issues of implementing model projects of eco-tourism, of usage and trade of asbestos, of natural degradation caused by mining. The experts also intend to visit some soums of Bulgan and Sukhbaatar aimags to study a possibility of developing the eco-tourism and to share views with the local authorities and people. This meeting will last until February 2. B.Khuder