Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Canada recently held a meeting with Mr. Randall Martin, Executive Director of British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE) and Colin Doerr, Director of External Relations of the BCCIE.

At the meeting, the parties discussed issues on increasing Mongolian students to study in the Universities and Institutes of the province, involving the students in scholarship, carrying out a cultural exchange program for secondary school students and establishing a direct relation and cooperation between schools. The Ambassador invited Mr. Randall Martin to visit Mongolia.

Moreover, Mr. Ariunbold met with Dr.Murali Chandrashekaran, first Vice-Provost of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and discussed about cooperating with the university within its ‘Global citizen’ long-term program, receiving supports to an ongoing project on renewal of curriculum being implemented at the School of Mining Engineering of the Mongolia’s University of Science and Technology (MUST), continuing this project, developing bilateral relations into the level so that educational diploma can be mutually recognized, scrutinizing possibility to open a branch of UBC in Mongolia as well as others.

As a follow-up action of the visit by Mongolian Minister of Environment and Tourism N.Tserenbat paid in August, 2018, the Ambassador met with Jorma Neuvonen, Director of Special Projects at UBC’s Forestry Faculty. The sides exchanged views on conducting joint research and training and studying a possibility to introduce standards of wooden materials into Mongolia, that builds 18-storey tall wooden buildings.

 As a part of his visit to the UBC, Mr. Ariunbold met with Mongolist Dr. Julian Dierkes, associate professor at the UBC’s Institute of Asian Research (IAR) and exchanged views on expanding a project being jointly implemented with MUST and increasing Mongolian scholars to work at IAR. The Ambassador invited Dr. Julian Dierkes to participate in the Mongolian Studies Conference to be organized in Washington in February this year.

Furthermore, Ambassador Mr.Ariunbold met with Mr. Robert Thomson, President of the Wrestling Association of British Columbia, and concurred to establish official cooperation between wrestling associations of Mongolia and BC, open a wrestling arena for Mongolian children in Vancouver and study a possibility to organize a competition for children of Mongolia and BC.

In the end, he met with Mr. Bryan Cox, President and CEO of Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC), and Mr. Lindsay Kislock, Vice President of MABC and invited them to participate in Mining Mongolia investment forum to be held in Ulaanbaatar in April this year.