FM’s visit to China concluded

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs L.Purevsuren paid an official visit to the People’s Republic of China by invitation of his Chinese counterpart Mr Wang Yi on April 1-3. On the first day of the visit, the two FMs held official talks, exchanging views on the bilateral cooperation in all spheres, on international and regional issues, expressing a mutual satisfaction with an expansion of the Mongolia-China relations and cooperation in all sectors, with deepening of the political trust and mutual understanding in accordance with ideology of the Treaty on Friendly Relations and Cooperation, and with forwarding of the ties at a level of the comprehensive strategic partnership. They reaffirmed their willingness to enrich the ties with a new content, shared views on opportunities to widen the collaboration, underlined an importance of maintaining a frequency of high-level mutual visits, discussed visits and events expected to run this year, and reached a principal agreement. After this, Purevsuren was received by Mr Li Yuanchao, the Vice President of China. As the head of the Mongolian side of the Mongolia--China intergovernmental commission, Purevsuren also met with Mr Gao Hucheng, China’s Minister of Commerce and the head of the Chinese side. They affirmed a mutual aspiration to intensify an implementation of many agreements made during the state visit of the PRC President to Mongolia in 2014, especially works in transit transportation, energy, infrastructure and financial spheres. Furthermore, they appraised an importance of refining the bilateral trade and economical mechanism and an implementation of the biggest projects that will significantly contribute to the economic development of the two countries. The parties also agreed that the Mongolia-China-Russia trilateral mechanism has become an important direction of the cooperation, and concurred to coordinate Mongolia’s "Steppe road" initiative with China’s "Silk road and economic belt" initiative and to analyze a matter on establishing the Mongolia-China-Russia economic corridor.