Ulaanbaatar
PM addresses at Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Prime Minister of Mongolia L.Oyun-Erdene delivered a speech via video at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021, which took place on April 20.
This year's conference, attended by more than 2,600 guests
from over 60 countries and regions, is themed ‘A World in Change: Join Hands to
Strengthen Global Governance and Advance Belt and Road Cooperation.’
In his speech, PM L.Oyun-Erdene highlighted that the Boao
Forum is becoming an important dialogue platform that integrates multi-partite
cooperation and efforts for ensuring regional sustainable economic development.
While congratulating the People’s Republic of China for its
realization of goal to reduce poverty, which is outlined in the UN 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, ten years ago, the PM underlined the importance of
achieving economic growth sustainably, diversifying economy and making equal
wealth distribution to end poverty.
Citing that the pandemic reminds us of how countries being deeply
interrelated and the significance of mutual actions more than before, the PM
presented Government’s ongoing policies and actions for its fight against the
pandemic.
The PM also remarked that Mongolia would continue its policy
to develop mutually beneficial cooperation and to take part in regional
political and economic activities actively within the country’s priority
directions including mining production, agriculture, energy, information
technology, tourism, transport and logistics that are stated in Mongolia’s
Vision 2050 long-term development policy.
The Forum is committed to promoting regional economic
integration and bringing Asian countries even closer to their development goals.
Initiated in 1998 by Fidel V. Ramos, former President of the
Philippines, Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia,
and Morihiro Hosokawa, former Prime Minister of Japan, the Boao Forum for
Asia was formally inaugurated in February 2001.
Within the framework of the 70th anniversary of
diplomatic relations between Mongolia and China, Boao Forum for Asia
Ulaanbaatar Conference was held in Mongolia in 2019 by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Mongolia in partnership with the Boao Forum for Asia.
