Ulaanbaatar
President addresses World Economic Leaders' discussion
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj has attended some series of discussions of the Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders (IGWEL), running within the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos-Klosters. The first discussion, he attended was “Actions priorities of the US next administration.
On January 18, the President also attended discussion on ‘Energy projects of the region’ and made speech. During this meeting, attendees discussed on subjects, ‘The Asia super grid’ project and possibilities and risks of the regional project.
Moreover, President Ts.Elbegdorj addressed the meeting on “Strengthening trust through leadership”. The meeting touched issues on world policies against corruption in infrastructure sector, transparency and good governance.
The President underlined that Mongolia has become an accepted partner of Davos forum and it should not lose possibility to attend the forum further, in his interview to Mongolian journalists during the World Economic Forum. “ - Within the Davos forum, Mongolians have been working actively regarding the issue of water. I have been a member of Water initiative group of the Forum and several international conferences and meetings were organized on water issue in Mongolia. We should keep working on this initiative. We also got a request to report on ASEM meeting, held in Mongolia last year. Renewable energy issue is especially important topic for us. The Mongolian Gobi has a significant resource of renewable energy and a renewable energy group has been established involving Mongolia, Russia and South Korea and business studies are being conducted. Using Gobi for renewable energy and many other ideas prompted here, from the forum “ said President Ts. Elbegdorj, answering questions of journalists.
