Mongolian President Kh.Battulga has held a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China’s resort city of Qingdao. The meeting took place yesterday, 10 June, on the final day of the two-day summit.

Yuri Ushakov, an aide to the Russian president, noted that the first trilateral meeting was initiated by Mongolia at a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State held in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, in September 2014. Russia, China and Mongolia reached an agreement then to hold such trilateral meetings on a regular basis. On this occasion, the leaders of the three countries exchanged views on ways to boost trilateral cooperation in various areas, the implementation of a road map on cooperation and the programme for effectively establishing the  Russia-Mongolia-China economic corridor.

Mongolian President Kh.Battulga and Vladimir Putin also met individually to exchange views on vital regional and international issues as well as discuss Russian-Mongolian cooperation in multilateral organisations,  and boosting cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union and the SCO.