Sergei Donskoi,  the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation is currently visiting Ulaanbaatar in his capacity as co-chair of inter-governmental commission meeting between Mongolia and Russia. The meeting commenced at Government House on Tuesday 13th December.  The same day, the head of State Great Khural, Speaker M.Enkbold, also met  with Minister Donskoi.

At the meeting, Speaker M.Enkhbold said: ‘I see that a new era is coming in cooperation between our two countries. Over the last three weeks, five of our ministers have visited Russia. There they met around nine deputies of the Russian State Duma (parliament) and discussed  cooperation in many areas. The annual Saint-Petersburg Economic Forum has also taken place and now the Inter-Governmental Commission Meeting is happening in Ulaanbaatar. I will visit  Moscow on 14^th of December where I will meet members of the Duma, the Federation Council (upper house) and Yedinaya Rossiya ('United Russia' – the main political party).

Sergei Donskoi noted that this year marks the 95^th Anniversary of the establishment of relations between the two countries. He also said: ‘We see Mongolia as a direct neighbour, an important partner and a country with a history of cooperation. In April, the Chinese, Russian and Mongolian Economic Partnership Agreement was signed. This represents the biggest stimulus for the development of future cooperation.