Cabinet meeting in brief

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its meeting on Friday, the cabinet approved directives for the Foreign Minister L.Bold to be adhered to in his official visit to Australia March 16-21. The main goals of the visit are to bring the bilateral relations and cooperation into a level of expanded partnership by confirming that Australia is one of the “Third Neighbors” of Mongolia and as one of the important partners of it in the Asia-Pacific region, and to widen the cooperation in mining, education, agriculture and environment protection. - The cabinet authorized Kh.Battulga, the Minister of Industry and Agriculture to sign a trilateral agreement among the governments of Mongolia, China and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on realizing a cooperation programme.