NEWS FROM MOSCOW

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ A representative of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia (ASM) will be opened Wednesday at the presidium's Council of the Research Center in Irkutsk city, Russia. It has been reported by Vladimir Pashkov, a vice-governor of Irkutsk oblast after he had met a delegation headed by B.Enkhtuvshin, the ASM's president.
At the meeting, they considered issues of establishing an inter-branch organization of the Russia-Mongolia Expeditions, a situation in the scientific-technical cooperation between Mongolia and Irkutsk oblast.
The Mongolian delegation has said Mongolia started to draw up a developmental program on its Mineral and Raw Materials Complex. A willingness has been sounded to cooperate with Irkutsk's counterparts in seismology as well.

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The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Russian Federation D.Idevkhten has met with Mr. Ye.M.Primakov, the president of Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Present at the meeting were B.Dashdorj, the first secretary of Mongolia's Embassy in Russia; J.Bayarkhuu, second secretary of the Embassy; S.V.Vasilyev, a department director of Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other officials.
The sides have shared views on intensifying the bilateral trade and supporting the collaboration between entities.
Mr. Idevkhten has mentioned that the trade turnover between Mongolia and Russia is expected to reach the level that was maintaned prior to the financial and economic crisis, according to anticipated execution of this year. He has underlined an importance of supporting effective collaboration between organizations, which express interests of enterprisers of Mongolia and Russia, with an aim to intensify the business activities.
Mr. Idevkhten has expressed his satisfaction with co-establishment of business council at the two countries' Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and requested Mr. Primakov to establish memorandums on collaboration among new organizations, to intensify their activities, and to organize a bilateral business meeting in Moscow.
In turn, Primakov has mentioned that "there is no misunderstanding between our countries, and the countries still keep their good neighborhood and friendly relations". He has hoped that experiences of working councils at the Russian Chamber of Commerce will significantly contribute to the Business Councils co-established by the countries.
Mr. Primakov has added that he supports the Ambassador's proposals focused on intensifying organizations for Mongolian and Russian business people, underlining a requirement to boost active cooperation in runing planned measures in the near future.
B.Khuder