Prime Minister meets his Japanese counterpart
PoliticsUlaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Prime
Minister U.Khurelsukh, who is now in Tokyo, Japan to attend the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Naruhito, was received by his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on
October 21.
In the beginning, Mr. Shinzo Abe expressed his gratitude to the Government of Mongolia for the condolence message for the victims of Typhoon Hagibis and rendering humanitarian assistance. Mr.Shinzo Abe said he is satisfied with ongoing successful realization of issues discussed during last year’s visit of Mongolian Prime Minister to Japan.
He also said that the
Japanese government is ready to render second phase fiscal assistance after
Mongolia makes proper changes in its monetary policy and resolves some banking
and financial difficulties.
For his part, Prime Minister
U.Khurelsukh expressed heartfelt gratitude to the Japanese government and the
people for its continued support to all sectors of Mongolia since the time of transition to market economy. “Mongolia reaffirms its support for Japan’s active
peaceful foreign policy and the ‘Indo-Pacific’ regional concept developed by
you. Mongolia is willing to expand bilateral Strategic Partnership relations in
all sectors, in particular to co-implement large projects and programs of
economic cooperation which could become symbol of friendship of the two
countries,” emphasized Mr. Khurelsukh.
Moreover, Mr. Khurelsukh said
that the country is for intensifying bilateral cooperation in physical culture
and sports, expressing his hope that Japanese will organize Olympic and
Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 successfully. The Prime Minister also conveyed Mongolian
President’s greetings to Mr. Shinzo Abe.