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Ulan Bator has offered Kyiv to produce coking coal in Mongolia, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said.

"Ukraine is very interested in the issue of coking coal mining in Mongolia, with Ukraine currently importing part of the coking coal from Russia.

We have received such an offer from Mr. President of Mongolia, and our experts will soon go to Mongolia to examine the issues related to the methods of coal mining, its quality, and, of course, the possibility of its shipment, most likely to the territory of Russia," Yanukovych said at a joint press conference with Mongolia’s President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj in Kyiv on Wednesday after the bilateral talks.

In turn, the president of Mongolia noted that his country was interested in Ukraine’s experience of Ukraine in coking coal mining and processing.