MONGOLIA TO COOPERATE WITH USA IN USING NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR PEACE

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia G.Zandanshatar met Wednesday Mr. Daniel
B.Poneman, the U.S Deputy Secretary of Energy.
After the meeting they have signed a Mongolia-USA inter-governmental memorandum on cooperation in exploitation of nuclear energy for peace.
At the news conference held after the signing ceremony, Mr. Poneman underlined that the above inter-governmental memorandum has three sets of importance that are to produce nuclear energy with low-content of coal, to strengthen the bilateral relations and to develop the infrastructure in Mongolia.
The Foreign Minister pointed out that Mongolia has established same memorandums with Russia, China, India and Japan pursuant to a document approved by the government, and added the effective exploitation of nuclear energy for peace is a main goal in the development because Mongolia has big resources of uranium.
"We have shared certain views on the cooperation in energy sector in frames of the memorandum, especially in realizing projects to construct solar and wind power plants in Gobi region," G.Zandanshatar said.
B.Khuder