SPEAKER RECEIVES CUBAN AMBASSADOR

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Speaker of parliament Z.Enkhbold received Tuesday the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba Omar Lauro Marrero. The Speaker congratulated H.E. Mr Marrero for being appointed the Ambassador to Mongolia and expressed a satisfaction with a development of relations between Mongolia and Cuba over the past 54 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations. Then the Chairman of the State Great Khural passed his official invitation to the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba Mr Raul Castro to pay a visit to Mongolia in 2015 on the marking of the 55th anniversary of the diplomatic ties, and noted that the visit would give an impetus to the cooperation of Mongolia and Cuba. The Ambassador Omar Lauro Marrero thanked the Speaker for receiving him and delivered to him the greetings of the Chairman of the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power. He also expressed a satisfaction with the relations between the two countries and stressed that the inter-parliamentary collaboration will serve in further development of the bilateral ties. The Speaker said Mongolia wishes to extend the agreement between Mongolia and Cuba on mutually recognizing education certificates, academic degrees and diplomas, as the term of the agreement has expired. Mongolia and the Republic of Cuba established diplomatic relations on December 7 of 1960.