Ulaanbaatar
Cooperation with Saudi Arabia in Environment Sector to be Intensified
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, September 6,
2023 /MONTSAME/. Minister of Environment
and Tourism Bat-Erdene received His Royal Highness Prince Turki bin
Mohammed bin Fahd Al Saud, Minister of State and Member of the House of Saud
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who is on an Official Visit to
Mongolia to exchange views on intensifying bilateral relations in environment
sector.
Particularly, Mongolian
side offered to actively participate in preparation of the 16th sessions of the
Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification,
sending officials and requested to provide a pavilion during the Conference for
promoting Mongolia, reports the Ministry of Environment and Tourism.
The Mongolian side put concrete proposals including
cooperation in afforestation of Gobi and Steppe regions, which the Saudi Arabia
has similar ecosystems, within the framework of “One Billion Trees" National
Campaign of Mongolia and "Ten Billion Trees" Initiative of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, in optimal solutions for irrigation systems and ecofriendly
infrastructure for the protection of wild animals, their habitat and migration
routes as well as experience exchange in the tourism, the start of cooperation
between the two countries' specially protected areas’ administrations by
establishing sister national parks. As an offer, a draft of a memorandum of
cooperation with the Administration of Specially Protected Area of Gurvan
Saikhan in Dundgobi aimag was handed over to Prince Turki bin Muhammad bin Fahd
Al-Saud, Minister of State and Member of the House
of Saud.
