The Minister for Defense, D.Bat-Erdene, is planning to make an official visit to the Russian Federation on February 17th.  This is the first official visit to the Russian Federation for D.Bat-Erdene as the Defense Minister of Mongolia.

D.Bat-Erdene will meet the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, who was appointed to the post last November, on the official visit to talk about a number of issues such as enlarging mutual cooperation between the two countries and increasing the number of qualified personnel in Russia.