Ulaanbaatar
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan M.Akimoto Pays Working Visit
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, May 2, 2023 /MONTSAME/. Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan M.Akimoto pays a working visit to Mongolia between May 1 and 2.
Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, G. Amartuvshin, and the State Secretary of Foreign
Affairs of Mongolia, N. Ankhbayar met Mr. M. Akimoto and discussed expanding
the Special Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity between Mongolia and
Japan in the fields of politics, trade and economy, specifically infrastructure
and energy as well as in education, culture, and people-to-people exchanges.
They also exchanged views on strengthening the mechanism for bilateral talks
and cooperation between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and some regional and
global issues.
M. Akimoto, the
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, signed a letter of
exchange on "JDS Scholarship Program for Human Resource Development",
which will be implemented in 2023 and 2024 with non-refundable aid by the Government
of Japan. The program has provided scholarship opportunities for over 415
Mongolian youth to pursue graduate and doctoral studies at leading universities
of Japan since 2001. This year, the program has been allocated a budget of JPY
266 million by the Government of Japan.
