Ulaanbaatar
UB city to host int'l conference on livestock pastoral farming
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On the sidelines of his official visit to the Republic of France, the President Ts.Elbegdorj received Thursday the Director-General of the World Organization for Animal Health Dr Bernard Vallat.
The latter noted that Mongolia is one of the important partners of the organization, which has 180 member-countries, and thanked the President for his time.
In response, Ts.Elbegdorj extended thanks to the World Organization for Animal Health for assisting Mongolia during the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in 2014 and 2015.
Dr Vallat said he will visit Mongolia soon in connection with Mongolian parliament's having run a first reading of a bill on Animal and Livestock Health.
Then, the sides exchanged opinions on preventing and ceasing a spread of animal epidemic diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and brucellosis.
The World Organization for Animal Health sounded a request to organize the next international conference on pastoral livestock farming in Mongolia. Mr Elbegdorj accepted it proposing a date--the first week of September of 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, under his auspices.
