Ulaanbaatar
Standing committee backs ratification of agreement on dry ports
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Parliamentary Standing committee on security and foreign policy discussed a bill on ratifying the Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports (IADP) and considered as necessity to ratify it.
Such ports can be set up at the border checkpoints of Altanbulag, Sainshand, Ulaanbaatar, Zamyn-Uud and Choibalsan, they are connected to the Asian motorway network and Trans-Asian railway network, they said. "This can augment transit transportation and passing capability and also facilitate the transportation and trade".
The bill on ratification of the IADP has been submitted to parliament because of several reasons of considering as important a support to initiatives on developing the transit transportation networks of highways and railways.
"If Mongolia joins the IADP, it shall not bear any tough responsibilities, this agreement is focused on improving trade and services and on passing transit freight in a short time,” said J.Bat-Erdene, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Road and Transportation, at the Standing committee's meeting.
