Mongolia calls on Russia to build through roads, pipes to China

MOSCOW, Nov 27 (PRIME) -- Mongolia has proposed that Russia should build rail and automobile roads, oil and gas pipelines, and power transmission lines through its territory to China, the Natural Resources and Environment Protection Ministry said in a statement Wednesday following an intergovernmental commission meeting.

The countries have also agreed to further consider the possibility of Mongolian exports to third parties via ports at the Russia’s Far East.

Mongolia has also asked Russia to maintain supplies of oil products at 1 million tonnes in 2014 and consider the creation of a joint working group to discuss annual oil supplies.

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