A consultative meeting between the Foreign Affairs Ministries of Mongolia and Australia was held in Ulaanbaatar, on September 23rd.

The first consultative meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministries was chaired by the Director of the Department of Policy Planning and Research of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ts.Batbayar, and Australian First Assistant Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia Peter Rowe.

In the meeting the parties exchanged information on foreign affairs policy and had talks on bilateral relations, with a focus on extraction programs, the working holiday visa category, Mongolia’s involvement in Australia’s New Colombo Plan by 2015, and support for cooperation in peace keeping, mining and investment.

The parties also exchanged views on international and regional issues, agreed to support each other in the scope of multilateral cooperation, maintain the frequency of consultative meetings of the Foreign Affairs Ministries, and to hold the next consultative meeting in Australia in 2015.

Peter Rowe and other Australian officials meet Mining Minister D.Gankhuyag, Foreign Affairs Minister L.Bold and Economic Development Minister N.Batbayar.