First meeting of permanent talks mechanism runs

Politics
en_khuder@montsame.mn
2015-11-24 16:08:22

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The State House Tuesday hosted the first meeting of the permanent talks mechanism between the State Great Khural (parliament) of Mongolia and the National People's Congress of China.

The meeting was chaired by B.Terbishdagva MP, a member of the Mongolia-China inter-parliamentary group. The sides introduced to each other their delegates, from the Chinese side it was done by a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NPC and chair of the China-Mongolia inter-parliamentary group Mr Cao Weizhou.

Head of the Mongolia-China inter-parliamentary group at Mongolian parliament M.Enkhbold made the opening remarks. He greeted China’s representatives on behalf of our parliament and expressed a satisfaction with the organization of this meeting, which is held for the first time by a memorandum of mutual understanding.

Enkhbold noted that boosting of the friendly relations and cooperation with China is one of the priorities of Mongolia’s foreign policy, and emphasized that the bilateral relations have reached the friendliest volume ever. He is glad that the bilateral cooperation is expanding in all spheres in accordance with the 1994 Treaty on Friendly Relations and Cooperation and a concept of the Joint Declaration on comprehensive strategic partnership relations. He hoped that this meeting will forward these ties.

Mr Enkhbold also said that a forwarding of the ties and collaboration between the two legislative bodies at all levels and an enhancing of legal fundamentals of the bilateral cooperation under the mechanism will become a vital political guarantee for deepening the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.

The Vice chairwoman of the Standing committee of the NPC of China and head of the permanent talks mechanism Ms Yan underlined a main purpose of her visit is to discuss issues of stepping up the Mongolia-China relations and the inter-parliamentary cooperation. She highlighted that far-sighting moves of the two countries’ leaders and the inter-parliamentary ties have significantly contributed to the development of the bilateral relations. Then, Ms Yan talked about her views on expanding the mechanism of permanent talks, underlining an importance of promoting negotiations, activating cooperation and enhancing the mutual trust.

After this, speeches on the Mongolia-China trade and economic cooperation, on education exchanges, on youths and media were given by S.Odontuya MP, a member of the Mongolia-China inter-parliamentary group; G.Batkhuu MP, a deputy head of the group; and by delegates of China from the NPC.

Regarding a development of the agricultural sector of Mongolia and the bilateral cooperation, a presentation was made by R.Burmaa MP, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, while a member of the NPC of agriculture and rural development Bao Keshin presented the same topic from his view.  

 

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