Улаанбаатар
Ambassador Tumur presents letter of credence to UN ESCAP Executive Secretary
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. On August 14, H.E. Mr. Tumur Amarsanaa, Ambassador-Designate of Mongolia to the Kingdom of Thailand, presented his Letter of Credence to H.E. Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations ESCAP, accrediting him as the Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the UN ESCAP.
During the meeting Executive Secretary Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Permanent Representative A.Tumur exchanged views on further expanding Mongolia-ESCAP cooperation as well as relevant projects and programs. H.E. A.Tumur expressed his satisfaction with successful Mongolia-ESCAP cooperation, in the areas, such as environment protection, statistics, disaster risk reduction, transit transport, trade facilitation and protection of interests of landlocked developing countries.
Furthermore, he expressed his willingness to collaborate on issues, such as increasing access to drinking and clean water, active participation in the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, reducing air pollution in the Asia-Pacific, and fighting desertification and land degradation.
Executive Secretary Armida Alisjahbana congratulated H.E.
A.Tumur on assuming his duties as Permanent Representative and reaffirmed her
commitment to further strengthen Mongolia-ESCAP relations. The Executive
Secretary noted that during her last year’s visit to Mongolia, she had several
meetings with high level Mongolian officials, during which she was briefed on
areas of special importance to Mongolia and expressed interest in cooperating
in these areas.
The Permanent Representative praised the Commission
leadership in designing the regional response due to COVID-19 pandemic, and
providing guidance and recommendations in overcoming the impact caused by the
pandemic. H.E. A.Tumur also briefed on the response by the Mongolian Government
to COVID-19, outlined and informed about the results of the parliamentary
elections and the draft Action Plan of the new Government of Mongolia.
Source: mfa.gov.mn
