Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Prime Minister J.Erdenebat, being on an official visit to Japan, held official talks with his counterpart Shinzo Abe on October 14. Afterwards, the dignitaries made press briefing.

At the beginning, head of Mongolian government noted the visit to our close partner is the first-ever foreign visit since he took the office, and that the talks went in a friendly atmosphere. It is priority for Mongolia to develop comprehensive partnership with Japan, which shares key values with Mongolia.

During the talks, the two sides agreed on launching new frameworks in wide range of spheres, namely, in politics, economy, culture, education and humanities. As the high level interactions have become more frequent, the mutual trust has strengthened. This visit aims at cementing the excellent people-to-people ties and upgrading the business cooperation with Japan, said the Prime Minister.

“I am delighted for the generous support by Mr Abe for Mongolia on realizing the long and medium term development goals on the basis of his high recognition of Mongolia’s significance in Japan’s foreign policy”, he said.

“We agreed on preparing a new medium-term program of implementation of the Mongolia-Japan strategic partnership for 2017-2021, reflecting the line of actions to be taken by the sides in the next four years”, he went on.

The Prime Minister of Mongolia pledged close cooperation with Japan, the country that helped build democracy and market economy system and laid the foundation stone of the contemporary development in Mongolia, on bilateral and international, as well as on the regional arenas.

Mr Shinzo Abe underlined he views the fact that the Mongolian Premier chose Japan as the first visiting destination as the head of government represents the strong bond and friendship between our two countries. “I am happy to meet you once again three months after the completion of the 11th ASEM Summit”, he said.

“Because Mongolia cherishes democracy, human rights and freedom to be its core values, Japan proclaims Mongolia as a strategic partner. For the same reason, I have visited Mongolia for three times”, he noted.

Mentioning today’s talks were highly productive, Japan’s PM shared that the sides conformed to set up a fresh program of the bilateral relations last July, “which will act as the “Google Map” or the “roadmap” of our cooperation”.

“Our opinions concerted today on forwarding the preparation of the mentioned program. I am confident the bilateral ties will broaden with mobilization of the program”, said Shinzo Abe, reports the Press and Public Relations Division of the Cabinet Office of Mongolia.