Ulaanbaatar
State Secretary of Foreign Ministry working in Canada
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ D.Davaasuren, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is working in Canada on January 23-25.
During his working visit, he met with Mr. Donald Bobiash, Assistant Deputy
Minister/Asia Pacific of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Development (DFATD) of Canada. The sides shared views on current bilateral
relations and cooperation and further objectives and discussed about expansion
of Mongolia-Canada friendly relations and partnership.
They also agreed to organize
the 8th roundtable of the two countries in Ulaanbaatar city, set a
roadmap of bilateral cooperation, advance relations, build a mechanism of
ministerial consultative meeting and cooperate in multilateral and regional
arena.
Mr. Davaasuren handed an
invitation over to Canadian side to take part in Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on
Northeast Asian Security to be held in June, 2019 in Mongolia, which was
accepted with support.
The Canadian side
highlighted that the two countries have successfully celebrated 45th
anniversary of diplomatic relations together and expressed its commitment to
cooperate on matters agreed.
Moreover, Mr. Davaasuren
held meetings with Mr. Benoit Daignault, President
and CEO of the Export Development Canada and authorities of other relevant organizations
and exchanged views on Canadian investment to Mongolia with support of this
organization and possibilities to increase trade and investment.
The State Secretary also met with Mr. Duane McMullen, Director General, Trade Operations in
Global Affairs Canada, and Ms. Sarah Taylor, Director General, Northeast Asia
and Oceania for Global Affairs Canada, exchanged views on further objectives of
bilateral relations and cooperation and discussed about opening Trade
Representative Office of Mongolia in Canada.
