ULAN BATOR, Nov 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Mongolia will retrieve all vessels that have sunk into the freshwater Khuvsgul Lake, President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh said, today.
Khurelsukh made the remarks, during a meeting with team members, who have recently retrieved a 309-tonne ship called Sukhbaatar that sank into the Khuvsgul Lake in 1985, according to the presidential press office.
“The retrieval of the ship is the beginning of the retrieval of all about 60 vessels from the bottom of the lake by 2024,” Khurelsukh said, noting, this programme aims to clean up pollution and hazardous waste, so as to better protect the lake’s ecosystem.
Khuvsgul Lake is located in the northern province of Khuvsgul, near the Russian border, and is the second largest freshwater lake in Asia, holding nearly 70 percent of Mongolia’s fresh water and 0.4 percent of the world’s total.
The lake is 1,645 metres above sea level, 136 km long and 262 metres deep.– NNN-XINHUA
