11th India-Mongolia Joint Working Group Meeting Held in New Delhi

11th India-Mongolia Joint Working Group Meeting Held in New Delhi

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Category : International Published on: February 14 2023

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  • The 11th meeting of India-Mongolia Joint Working Group was held today on 10th February 2023 in New Delhi.
  • Co-chaired by Dr. Ajay Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence, India and Brigadier General Gankhuyag Davgdorj, State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Mongolia, the meeting of the Joint Working Group took place for the first time since the pandemic.
  • Both sides reviewed the progress on various bilateral defence cooperation initiatives and identified means to further enhance the existing areas of cooperation and articulated steps in this direction.
  • India established diplomatic relations with Mongolia in 1955. The Indian Resident Mission in Ulaanbaatar was opened in 1971. 
  • This relationship was upgraded to “strategic partnership” in 2015 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Mongolia and declared it as an essential component of ‘Act East Policy’.

About Mongolia: 

  1. Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia.
  2. Founded by Genghis Khan in 1206
  3. Capital: Ulaanbaatar
  4. The Gobi Desert is a vast, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia.
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