Finance Minister of Mongolia receives ADB Country Director

AKIPRESS.COM - Finance Minister of Mongolia Chimed Khurelbaatar met ADB Country Director for Mongolia Ms.Yolanda Fernandez Lommen in connection with the latter's completion of her mission in Mongolia, Montsame reported.
Minister Khurelbaatar thanked Ms. Yolanda for her great support and close cooperation to have projects and programs with socio-economic significance for Mongolia approved and implemented projects which aims to diversify fundamental economic sectors, reduce negative impacts on social vulnerable groups during the difficulty, improve social welfare service and develop infrastructure, and for having been a confident partner who have exchanged opinions frankly at the policy level.
At the meeting, Minister Ch.Khurelbaatar presented to Ms. Yolanda the Letter of Gratitude given by the Prime Minister of Mongolia in recognition of her valuable contributions to Mongolia-ADB partnership.
During the past four years, the ADB in partnership with Mongolian government has been successfully implementing over 20 projects, including improvement of energy distribution to western region of Mongolia, increasing people's accessibility to social basic services, renewing waste water treatment plants in 10 aimags, developing checkpoint infrastructure, developing eco-tourism in Khuvsgul Lake National Park and Onon-Balj National Park, establishing affordable eco-house as well as others.