The Cuban ambassador in Mongolia, Jorge Ferrer, met with the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Bat-Erdene Bat-Ulzii. The Acting Head of the Department of Tourism Policy and Regulation, T.Munkh-Od, Senior Analyst, E.Enkhmaa, and Senior Specialist of the Department of Foreign Cooperation of the Ministry, B.Battsetseg, were also present.
The Cuban ambassador, Jorge Ferrer met with Dr. Badarch Dendev, President of the National University of Mongolia. Dr. N. Batnasan, Dean of the Business School, Mr. Munkh Namsrai, Head of the Department of European Studies and Uyanga Tsenddorj, Postgraduate Education Officer were also present.
Both parties discussed the possibilities of cooperation between the Universities of both countries, as well as the implementation of existing collaboration agreements, identifying areas of common interest.
The Ambassador of Cuba in Mongolia, Jorge Ferrer, paid tribute and congratulated the Mongolian women in the area of international relations and Ambassadors on the occasion of the Women´s International Day.
The activity was attended by the Vice Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, officials from various institutions and companies related to Cuba and the Ambassadors of the European Union, Italy, Canada and UNDP.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 27 February 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Chargé D’Affaires, Benjamin Ziff, to the Ministry, to formally convey Cuba’s vigorous protest at the granting of political asylum to the Cuban citizen Rubén Martínez Machado, perpetrator of the hijacking of a Cuban civil aircraft on 21 October 2022.
:- I think you have celebrated the Mongolian traditional holiday Tsagaan Sar /Lunar New Year/. How did you celebrate Lunar New Year last year?
- We have celebrated Tsagaan Sar in 2022 with some of our closest friends. They are graduated professionals from Cuban universities in a program of free scholarships that Cuba have with Mongolia and several other brother Developing Countries since 1963 that have graduated around 140 Mongolians. We ate some food, drank, talked, hear music and shared funny jokes and anecdotes of their stay in Cuba and mine here.