Ulaanbaatar
Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Culture meet
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Foreign Affairs N.Enkhtaivan received Minister of Culture S.Chuluun, discussing cooperation matters between the ministries.
The Foreign Minister reported about co-implementation of programs “Values of Mongolian nationality” and “World Mongolians II” in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and progress of replication of historical and cultural items and artifacts of Mongolia in foreign countries in regard with establishment of the Museum of Chinggis Khaan according to a directive given by the Prime Minister.
And the two Ministers agreed to cooperate in broadening the scope of Mongolian studies overseas, inscribing Mongolian heritage on the World Heritage Fund, combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property, creating large-scale national mobile exhibition to promote Mongolia by touring around the world as well as training specialists of arts and culture and classic arts abroad.
At the end of the meeting, Minister of Culture S.Chuluun presented several volumes of the book published within “Mongolian heritage spread around the world” program running by the International Association for Mongolian Studies in partnership with the MFA. Minister of Foreign Affairs N.Enkhtaivan handed over replicas of a letter sent by Khan of the Golden Horde Tokhtamysh Yarlyk to the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania Wladyslaw II Jagiello in 1393. A letter of Tokhmatysh Khan written on two pieces of 20,5 x 42 cm papers, is now being preserved at the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, Poland. The letter is about co-owning of an uncertain territory, which was under authority of the King of Poland and concluding a peace treaty.
