Ambassador V.Purevdorj presents letter of credence to WTO

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ambassador Mr V.Purevdorj Monday presented his letter of credence to Mr Roberto Azevedo, the WTO Director-General. At the meeting ran after the presentation ceremony, Mr Azevedo received the Permanent Representative and wished him success. He said the WTO has an aspiration to expand the collaboration with Mongolia. Mentioning that Mongolia has been constantly supporting the multilateral trade policy and maintaining a liberal policy on external trade since joining the WTO in 1997, Mr Purevdorj affirmed that Mongolia will keep its active participation in multilateral commercial talks within the WTO. The WTO will consider the trade policy of Mongolia for the second time on June 3-5, 2014, Mr Purevdorj said, and underlined this is important for Mongolia. The country wants to fully enjoy favourbale conditions which are provided in frames of the multilateral commercial system, to increase opportunities for Mongolia to penetrate into external market, to learn tariff and non-tariff burdens to the external trade of Mongolia, to collaborate with the WTO in implementing multilateral commercial agreements and to take technical assistance from the WTO for strengthening the national skilled staffers. Mr Purevdorj noted that Mongolia has been contributing to forwarding interests of landlocked developing countries at an international level, and then reported that the International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries was established 2009 in Ulaanbaatar city under auspices of the United Nations (UN). He also reported that an international summit themed “WTO agreements on easing trade and their impacts on landlocked developing nations” will be held on June 2-3 in Mongolia together with a related department of the UN. He hopes that the WTO will send its high-level officials to the forthcoming event. In response, Mr Azevedo supported proposals and requests of Mongolia, and said that he will give all possible help to Mongolia for participating talks on trade and developing the external trade in order to have more benefits from the multilateral commercial system. Present at the meeting, held in the WTO Headquarters in Geneva, were an advisor to the WTO Director-General and diplomats of the Mongolia’s Permanent Representative Office in Geneva.