Ulaanbaatar
UK Minister for Asia meets local media
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Heather Wheeler, Minister of Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom, who is visiting Mongolia on October 3 and 4, held a press meeting and answered some questions from reporters.
At the meeting, UK Minister Heather Wheeler noted that the United Kingdom’s impending departure from the European Union will not have a negative effect on the existing friendly relations and cooperation the UK maintain with all countries around the world and especially its good relationship with Mongolia remain the same to be further strengthened.
“And the UK will keep working on bilateral trade relations with Mongolia and focus on investing in the Mongolia’s educational field, such as developing a Cambridge Education School program in cooperation with the Mongolian Education Ministry” the UK Minister added. “The number of Mongolian students to study in the UK has been increasing year by year and the British Government has recently announced that International students will be offered a two-year work visa after graduating from a British university starting September 2020”.
Regarding the current development of Mongolia, the UK Minister Heather Wheeler said that Mongolia has gone through ample changes and reforms in the past three decades to find its path to growth and development, after pointing about some major highlights, such as Oyu Tolgoi underground mining development project.
Today on October 4, Minister Heather Wheeler will lead the official opening ceremony of the new British Embassy office in the Shangri-La Office Tower in Ulaanbaatar and then visit the world-class Oyu Tolgoi mine in the Gobi Desert.
