D.ZORIGT MEETS STATE SECRETARY OF FEDERAL MINISTRY

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ A delegation headed by Mr. Bernd Pfaffenbach, the State Secretary at Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, has been received by D.Zorigt, the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy.
D.Zorigt has highlighted the Federal Republic of Germany is one of the Third Neighbors of Mongolia, and expressed a gratitude to the German side for forwarding a beneficial proposal on developing a collaboration in the minerals and energy sector.
In response, Mr. Pfaffenbach has said Germany's Organization for Economics and Cooperation increased the credit rate of Mongolia. He has said Germany endorsed last year a document of strategic policy on mining, and put forward proposals to develop strategic partnership relations with Mongolia and to establish a partnership agreement between the governments. In addition, Germany's side wants to make investments to the biggest projects in Mongolia and to develop related collaboration.
The sides have considered a matter on hosting the Mongolia-Germany economic consultative meeting in September this year in Berlin.
B.Khuder