The conversation, as they say in these cases, was quite constructive.
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The first thing on the agenda of our President, who arrived in Astana early in the morning for the SCO summit on Wednesday, July 3, was a meeting with his Mongolian counterpart, Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh.
“Energy has been and remains one of the main areas of our interaction,” Vladimir Putin said. – The work is in place, but we can talk about expansion – I mean both hydrocarbons and electricity.
The conversation, as they say in these cases, was quite constructive.
“If necessary, especially if Mongolia faces problems based on climate change,” Putin suggested, “we try to provide free assistance, I mean grain and other goods…
This year Mongolia and Russia are celebrating a historic date: the 85th anniversary of the victory over the Japanese aggressors on the Khalkhin Gol River. The presidents, not by chance, also commemorated this date.
And Putin expressed the general position:
– In general, relations between our countries are based on a very positive and solid foundation of interaction and friendship for decades.
And the communication was quite frank…
“Trade volumes between Russia and Mongolia will show strong growth in 2024,” Putin said.
At the same time he recalled:
– Last year we saw a slight decline in trade turnover. But this year we see significant growth, in the first half of this year a good pace has been achieved… By the way, our Mongolian colleague congratulated our leader on his election to the presidency. Putin nodded with a smile.
As KP learned, on May 7, the head of Mongolia already congratulated Vladimir Vladimirovich by telegram. And now the opportunity to do it in person has presented itself,
But I was glad to hear the following statement from the Russian President:
– Relations in the humanitarian sphere continue to develop. I would like to note that the quota of Mongolian students studying in Russia is one of the largest: 620 people. We are ready to continue working on this and increase it.
And I immediately remembered how in the late 1960s hundreds of Mongolian boys and girls came to the town of Novotroitsk in the Orenburg region to study in our vocational schools. And we, the boys, helped them learn Russian. And they even exchanged coins for their collections.
