Ulaanbaatar
Minister and ADB Permanent Rep about project
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia’s Minister of Environment, Green Development and Tourism N.Batttsereg Wednesday met Mr Robert Schoellhammer, the Country-Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Mongolia.
They discussed a feasibility for a project on rehabilitating the Tuul River, a technical and economic assistance to this project, and a working out of a draft of soft loan.
The Tuul river occupies its important place in economy and eco-system. Within the project, feasibility of which launched in 2014, works are supposed such as studying the administrative structure located in the river’s basin, increasing the administrative potential, performing a monitoring over levels of underground and surface waters and their quality near the river, boosting green development of the UB city, furnishing and protecting the areas on the river bank. Measures will also be taken for determining causes of the river pollution as well.
At the meeting, the Minister expressed a satisfaction with an expansion of the Mongolia-ADB cooperation. He also noted that any projects and programmes must be followed by an improvement of the national potential.
