DIRECTOR OF UNFPA REGIONAL OFFICE VISITING

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ A Director of United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) Asia and the Pacific Regional Office Mrs. Nobuko Horibe is paying an official visit to Mongolia. On Monday, she was received by the Prime Minister S.Batbold, by Parliament Speaker D.Demberel, and by Health Minister S.Lambaa.
On Tuesday, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs B.Bolor met Mrs. Nobuko. They have shared views on the ties and collaboration between Mongolia and the UNFPA. The Vice Minister has thanked Mrs. Nobuko for visiting Mongolia in times of the 50th anniversary of Mongolia's joining the United Nations.
Mrs. Nobuko has said the UNFPA has been supporting and assisting Mongolia in reproductive health and demographic developmental matters and in ensuring a gender equality, and intends to link projects and programs for 2012-2016 with the middle and long-term policies of the Mongolian government.
She has emphasized an importance of the collaborate in improving family planning matters and health education among youths and children, of distributing aid to rural people.
In turn, the Vice Minister has expressed a satisfaction with a support the UN gives to developmental goals of Mongolia. He has expressed a willingness of Mongolia's Foreign Ministry to closely cooperate with the UN and its system organizations and specialized agencies in implementing a document of development assistance frame to be rendered in 2012-2016.
The visit will last until April 7.

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Mongolia started the cooperation with the UNFPA from 1976. The UNFPA opened in 1992 its representative in charge of program and project affairs in Mongolia. In respect of a request of Mongolia, the UNFPA's representatives became a permanent representative in 1999.
The UNFPA gives assistance to Mongolia in demographic development, ensuring of gender equality and reproductive health. Projects and programs to be implemented in Mongolia are worked out for a five-year term.
In a scope of its power, the UNFPA is cooperating with Mongolia in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially in ensuring the gender equality, declining child and maternal mortalities and combating HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases. In addition, the UNFPA has successfully implemented projects and programs with financing of USD 14 million with aims to back reproductive health, demographic development and gender equality in Mongolia.
B.Khuder