Ch.Saikhanbileg PM meets Yan Junqin

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister of Mongolia Ch.Saikhanbileg Tuesday met with Ms Yan Junqin, the vice Chairwoman of the Standing committee of the National People's Congress of China (NPCC). Noting that a developing of long-term and sustainable friendly relations and cooperation with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is one of the priorities of Mongolia’s foreign policy, the Premier underlined that a state visit of the Mongolian President to China this November 9-11 contributed to forwarding our comprehensive strategic partnership. He expressed a satisfaction with an establishment of the general credit agreement of USD 1 billion, and pointed out the Mongolian government re-approved a list of projects that will be implemented with the loan’s capital. Mr Saikhanbileg also told that the issues of the Mongolia-China relations and economic cooperation and accelerating mega-projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors were touched upon during his meeting with Li Keqiang on the "fields" of the Summer Davos World Economic Forum September 9-11 in Dalian. The Premier thanked China’s side for supporting Mongolia’s exploitation of northern and northeastern sea ports of China for running trade, taking into account Mongolia’s landlocked status, and asked the NPCC to actively carry out talks on this matter. It is vital to intensify constructions of new railways in Mongolia in order to realize bilateral agreements on deepening the collaboration in railway and on increasing the transit transport, the Premier said and hoped the Chinese side will participate in the railway construction. In response, Ms Yan underlined a vital role of high level visits in forwarding the trade and economic ties with Mongolia and an importance of keeping a frequency of visits. She expressed her satisfaction with an intensive development of the bilateral relations with mutual efforts. Present at the meeting were M.Enkhbold, a Vice Speaker of parliament; S.Bayartsogt, head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government; G.Batkhuu MP; and B.Delgermaa, a chief advisor to the PM.