Swedish Foreign Minister meets our Ambassador

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden Mr Carl Bildt Tuesday received Z.Altai, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the country. The dignitaries shared views on the Mongolia-Sweden relations and cooperation. Mr Altai said these ties have been intensively developing in recent years, noting that a visit of the Mongolian President to Sweden in 2012 was the very first visit paid at a level of State Head. In conjunction of the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic relations to be marked next year, the Ambassador proposed organizing mutual high level visits such as of His Highness Carl XVI Gustaf and his daughter Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden to Mongolia, and of Mongolia’s FM to Sweden. Mr Altai also pointed out that Mongolia intends to run the Mongolian cultural days, concert and exhibition in Sweden in frames of the diplomatic relations’ anniversary, and said Mongolia is ready to support such events of Sweden. The Ambassador also suggested granting scholarships to Mongolian students, establishing a visa-free agreement for diplomatic and official passport holders, organizing mutual visits of inter-parliamentary representatives, supporting Mongolia in its accessing the Arctic Council, and involving the Swedish side in an annual "Khaan Quest" peacekeeping operations exercises. Expressing satisfaction with a development of the bilateral relations, Mr Bildt said Sweden appreciates an intensive development of the Mongolian economy and democracy. He also said his country supports the mutual visits and cultural events on occasion of the anniversary of the diplomatic relations, and added that he will reply to other proposals soon.