Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ Defense Minister N.Enkhbold held meetings with Ambassadors of the United States, the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Korea respectively on March 4  and exchanged views on expanding defense sector’s cooperation.

‘Khaan Quest’ multinational peacekeeping operations to be jointly organized

During the meeting with the U.S. Ambassador Michael Klecheski, Mr. Enkhbold underlined that bilateral relations are successfully developing in many sectors and among them, cooperation of armed forces and defense has an important position.

The sides confirmed to expand bilateral cooperation in defense sector and co-organize multinational peacekeeping exercise ‘Khaan Quest’. They expressed their satisfaction that this ever-expanding multinational peacekeeping exercise -- an expression of bilateral cooperation of defense sector, is becoming more reputable not only in the region but also in the worldwide.  

Roles of military attaches highlighted to expand cooperation

At the meeting with Mr. Ahmet Yazal, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Mr. Enkhbold expressed gratitude to Turkish government and its Ministry of Defense for supporting reforms in Mongolia’s armed forces and granting military equipment and facility as non-refundable assistance within the military cooperation of the two countries.

Mr. Enkhbold also notified that Mongolia resolved an issue to have a military attache at the Embassy of Mongolia to Turkey while mentioning an importance of a role of military attaches in developing cooperation in the future.

As a head of intergovernmental commission between two countries, Mr. Enkhbold shared views on expanding bilateral relations and cooperation in all sectors.

For his part, the Ambassador emphasized that Mongolia-Turkey cooperation in defense sector is expanding year by year and expressed an interest to elevate the relations to a new level, organize reciprocal visits of high and medium level officials of the sector and cooperate in improving skills and knowledge of military personnel and the capacity of armed forces and exchanging mutual experiences.

                               Expansion of Mongolia-S.Korea cooperation in military sector emphasized

The sides mutually expressed their satisfaction with outcomes of implementation of many important events held last year including consultative meeting of Defense Ministries and joint military exercises of armed forces of the two countries.  

Ambassador Chung Jae-nam raised proposals to organize a number of events in defense sector on occasion of 30^th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and the Republic of Korea which will be marked in 2020.