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BILATERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN MONGOLIA AND CANADA REACHING A NEW STAGE

Date: 
Thursday, 01 October 2015

H.E. Mr. Purevsuren Lundeg, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, met the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie of Canada, and exchanged views on bilateral relations and cooperation on 29 September on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.

While emphasizing that the bilateral relations reached a new stage, Foreign Minister L.Purevsuren expressed his desire and interest in looking our relations more broadly not limiting to the mining sector, but also expanding bilateral cooperation into other areas, such as agriculture, road building and housing. Furthermore, he said that we had reached a final stage of concluding the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement between the Governments of Mongolia and Canada. The two Ministers exchanged views on some details of signing the Agreement.

Mr. К.Paradis noted that the decision to include Mongolia in the list of countries of focus was significantly important in our bilateral relations. He also informed on a decision of the Government of Canada to implement projects in Mongolia.  

 

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