Member of the State Great Hural (Parliament) and Chair of Mongolia-IndiaParliamentary Group at the State Great Hural, Mrs. B.Saranchimeg held a virtualmeeting with its parliamentary group members today on April 26, 2021.

The meeting was focused how to support India as the countrygrapples with a devastating surge in coronavirus infections nowadays, and atthe beginning of the meeting, Chair B.Saranchimeg underlined that India has along history of friendly relations with Mongolia, and in recent years,bilateral relations and cooperation have been developing successfully in theframework of the Strategic Partnership. With the support of India, which hasextensive economic, social, cultural and educational ties with Mongolia,large-scale projects are underway including the country’s first refineryproject. In the very first phase, the Government of India first provided Mongoliawith a part of AstraZeneca vaccines as a grant aid, stressed B.Saranchimeg.

Members of the Mongolia-India parliamentary group noted thatthe initiative to help the people of India in times of need is taking placeamong the volunteers as well as at the level of the Parliament and the Government.Despite the difficult epidemic situation in Mongolia, the parliamentary group membersunanimously agreed to lead this initiative and the Group Chair B.Saranchimeg saidthat an organizational issue of providing countenance to the people of Indiashould be resolved through discussions with the Government.