Cabinet meeting in brief

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its regular meeting held last Saturday, the cabinet discussed a Mongolia-Turkey intergovernmental agreement on mutual travelling of citizens, and then decided to consult it with related Standing committee of parliament. On April 11 of this year, the countries signed an intergovernmental memorandum on exempting ordinary passport holders of the both countries from the visa requirements after agreeing the matter during the visit of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Mongolia. In accordance with the agreement, people of the countries can travel each other’s countries without visa for up to 30 days. - The same day, the cabinet approved a Mongolia-China intergovernmental agreement on the military-technical cooperation which was signed on September 18, 2013 in Beijing during the official visit of the Mongolian Defense Minister to China. This agreement reflects an issue of developing the bilateral defense collaboration in sharing experience in technical facilities and technologies, buying some products and preparing engineering trained staffers.