MINISTER OF ROAD MEETS COUNTERPART FROM SINGAPORE

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In frames of his working visit to Singapore, Mongolia’s Minister of Road and Transportation A.Gansukh has met with his counterpart Mr Lui Tuck Yew. They have exchanged views on the cooperation in the transportation sector. Mr Lui congratulated Mongolia on opening direct flights to Singapore, then the two Ministers expressed a mutual satisfaction with intensive development of the transportation ties. Mr also said the flights will forward the cooperation in many spheres, amd will become for Mongolia the closets way to other Southeast Asian countries. Then the two parties shared views on a chance of establishing a memorandum of mutual understanding between the two Ministries in order to bring the transportation cooperation into a newer level. Mr Lui asked his colleague about international airport being constructed in Mongolia and thanked the Mongolian side for getting a permission for the Ulaanbaatar--Singapore flights to have on board more people in Beijing. Present at the meeting were B.Delgermaa, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Singapore; J.Byambatsogt, an advisor to the Minister of Road and Transportation; Kh.Enkhbaatar, a department head of the Ministry, and others.