Ulaanbaatar
Ambassador L.Purevsuren meets with EFTA’s Deputy Secretary-General
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ambassador of Mongolia to Switzerland L.Purevsuren met with Martin Zbinden, Deputy Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) on June 22.
The parties have successfully organized the joint committee meeting in 2010 and in 2017 respectively with an objective of ensuring implementation of a Joint Declaration on Cooperation established between Mongolia and EFTA in 2007, and the next meeting will be held in 2019, cited the Ambassador. The sides discussed about founding a joint working group to study feasibility of establishing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two sides to forward cooperation.
Mr.Martin Zbinden reported that EFTA’s new Secretary General to be appointed in September, 2019 and expressed his readiness for taking joint actions towards founding the working group.
EFTA was established in 1960. Since then it has signed 28 FTA with 38 countries as of June, 2018, agreeing to exempt some 90 percent of bilateral trade from import customs and tariffs directly. Moreover EFTA establishes a Joint Declaration on Cooperation with partner countries which is considered as the first step to cultivate free trade relations.
The parties have successfully organized the joint committee meeting in 2010 and in 2017 respectively with an objective of ensuring implementation of a Joint Declaration on Cooperation established between Mongolia and EFTA in 2007, and the next meeting will be held in 2019, cited the Ambassador. The sides discussed about founding a joint working group to study feasibility of establishing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two sides to forward cooperation.
Mr.Martin Zbinden reported that EFTA’s new Secretary General to be appointed in September, 2019 and expressed his readiness for taking joint actions towards founding the working group.
EFTA was established in 1960. Since then it has signed 28 FTA with 38 countries as of June, 2018, agreeing to exempt some 90 percent of bilateral trade from import customs and tariffs directly. Moreover EFTA establishes a Joint Declaration on Cooperation with partner countries which is considered as the first step to cultivate free trade relations.
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