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March 11, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Mongolian government will send a military field hospital to the restive region of Darfur, in response to demand made by the United Nations peacekeeping department.

The hospital will be located at a UNAMID settlement in Kabkabia, about 170 km from El Fasher the capital of North Darfur state.

The Hungarian PM announced that Hungary would provide technical advice to Mongolia on trading with the European Union, as well as financial support in the fields of animal health and animal rearing technology.

Bajnai also said Hungary would provide a Mongolian food producer with a low-interest loan of 25 million U.S. dollars.

Bajnai added that Hungary would keep Mongolia'

Mongolian Prime Minister Batbold Sukhbaatar will visit the Republic of Austria on March 8-9, to meet with authorities of the United Nations Office in Vienna, the UNIDO, the IAEA and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Mongolian Foreign Ministry's Information Service said on Sunday.

The premier also will pay an official visit to the Republic of Hungary

The United States and Mongolia held Annual Bilateral Consultations on February 26, 2010 in the State Department’s George C. Marshall conference facility.

The ABC, which rotates annually between the two capitals, covers the broad range of activity between the two nations.

Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M. Campbell and Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Af

Labour MP John Grogan highlighted the importance of the relationship between the UK and Mongolia.

Mr Grogan, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Mongolia Group, said about 7,000 British tourists visit the country every year, and that the country's tourism industry had "great potential".

He said he was keen to see the introduction of direct flights between the UK and t

Two top Korean public servants will work in Mongolia for a year as financial advisers to the country, a move intended to help create stronger ties between the nations.

The two officials are being sent to Mongolia as World Bank consultants under a $500,000 program created by the global financial body to help the country modify and strengthen its financial systems. Mongolia has received

Australia is to provide Mongolia with $1 million in humanitarian assistance as the central Asian nation tries to recover from the effects of severe weather conditions.

The death of more than 450,000 head of livestock following a recent drought and extreme winter temperatures in December was threatening the livelihoods of Mongolian herders, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday hailed a move by Mongolia's president to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty, saying that it sets a "leadership example in Asia."