Mongolia establishes diplomatic relations with Palau

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia has established the diplomatic relations with the Republic of Palau. A memorandum on the diplomatic relations was signed Wednesday by Mr L.Bold, Mongolia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by Mr Tommy Remengesau, the President of Palau. The same day, Mr Bold held a meeting with his counterpart of Iceland Mr Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson. They underlined an importance of upcoming political consultative meeting scheduled in 2014 for expanding the bilateral relations and for determining its directions, and noted that organizing of mutual visits and information sharing will help design the spheres of the cooperation. Mr Bold expressed a willingness of Mongolia to collaborate with Iceland in a way of training the Mongolian experts in a scope of the programme on combating desertification, of sharing experience and saving water resources. The sides also shared views on forthcoming elections of the UN Security Council’s non-permanent membership, of Commission for Maritime Commission and of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).