A working meeting of the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Aleksei Gordeev and a delegation of Mongolian diplomats headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia Nyamtseren Enkhtaivan was held in the State Duma on September 21.
The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy
Leonid Eduardovich
also took
part in the meeting.
During the meeting, Aleksei Gordeev expressed satisfaction with the ongoing contacts between the two states, even in the current conditions of the restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “We have developed long-standing and friendly relations that do not stop even in the current conditions of certain restrictions,” he said. “The development of comprehensive cooperation with Mongolia is one of the most important priorities of Russia’s foreign policy.”
The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma noted the need to enhance cooperation between the State Duma and the State Great Khural. “Russia-Mongolia cooperation has great potential and good development perspectives, including in the parliamentary framework,” he said. “Closer contacts between the State Duma and the Great Khural will help to bring the positions of our countries closer, give an impetus to the enhancement of the inter-parliamentary dialogue to solve specific tasks at the legislative level”.
The Russian side proposed to create an Inter-parliamentary Commission in addition to the Russia-Mongolia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, establishing close cooperation at the level of the federal legislative assemblies. Such a Commission could give several additional positive feedbacks regarding the solutions of the most important, most urgent issues of bilateral cooperation.
Aleksei Gordeev accepted the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia to visit the country in 2021 and take part in the ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two states.
