Prime Minister S.Batbold is on an official visit to the
USA and Canada from September 20 through October 3. He will be in New York until
September 27, where he is to address the summit meeting of the UN General
Assembly and attend a round table discussion in “Ensuring special needs
for extremely vulnerable countries”.

He will also speak at the general debate of the 65th
session of the UN General Assembly, and take part in a meeting on
“Innovative global management” organized jointly by the United
Nations Fund for International Partnership (UNFIP) and the Louise Blouin
Foundation, where he will speak on “The future of raw materials”.
Batbold is to meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with the chairman of
the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, senior officials of the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP), international leaders, and familiarize
himself with activities of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Batbold will be in Canada from September 28 to October 1,
his first visit to the country since becoming Prime Minister. He will hold a
series of talks with leaders there to strengthen bilateral ties, and to widen areas
of partnership cooperation. Among those he is scheduled to meet are Prime
Minister Stephen Harper and some of his Cabinet colleagues and the Speakers of
the Senate and the House of Commons in the Canadian parliament. Batbold will
also meet with governors of Ontario and British Columbia provinces, and attend
Mongolia-Canada business meetings in Toronto and Vancouver. Several agreements on
development of cooperation in road, transportation, construction, urban
development, civil service and standardization services are expected to be
signed.

On his way home, Batbold will be in Japan to
attend the formal ceremony to mark the retirement of Asashoryu from sumo.