COOPERATION SPHERES FOR MONGOLIA DISCUSSED

Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ On February 1, Yo.Baatarbileg, MP and head of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Policy, Education, Culture and Science, and A. Undraa, MP and member of the Standing Committee, held a meeting with Gabriella Spirli, Director of Cooperation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). To begin the meeting, MP Yo.Baatarbileg appreciated SDC for its continued cooperation with Mongolian Parliament since 2002. During the meeting, the MP expressed an interest to cooperate in three spheres. He requested the SDC to collaborate in implementing a project to publisize vocational education, introducing international advancedtechnology for air pollution reduction, and protecting children’s rights in cyber space, combating defamations on social network and preventing from distribution of false information. In turn, Gabriella Spirli thanked MPs for audience and introduced about the SDC’s cooperation strategy for the next four years. She gave overall information about ongoing projects on agriculture, vocational training center and strengthening governance and reported the SDC’s decision to continue its project having implemented in Zavkhan and Khovd aimags and in Ulaanbaatar city. The project, funded with the Government of Germany, aims at reducing heat losses of school and kindergarten buildings and increasing indoor temperatures in the freezing Mongolian winter. M.Unurzul