Press Release: EU and Mongolia celebrate 25th anniversary of cooperation

Preview and reports: Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, paid an official visit to Mongolia from 7 to 9 September 2014 and had meetings with the Mongolian leadership, including Minister for Foreign Affairs Luvsanvandan Bold, Minister for Education and Science Luvsannyam Gantumur and Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism Tsedevdamba Oyungerel.

The objective of these meetings was to take stock of relations between the EU and Mongolia and to extend the scope of cooperation between the two regions, consolidated following the signature of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), to cover people-to-people exchanges.

The European Union and Mongolia launched bilateral relations in 1989. The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement was signed in 2013.