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Tue, 06/02/2015 - 11:44
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MONGOLIA AND JAPAN INK AGREEMENT ON PEACEKEEPING COOPERATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Ministry of Defense hosted Tuesday a ceremony for signing an agreement between the Governments of Mongolia and Japan on cooperation in training of humanitarian assistance, eliminating disaster damages and peacekeeping operations. The intergovernmental agreement was signed by the Mongolian Defense Minister Ts.Tsolmon and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Mongolia Mr T.Shimizu. Since 2012, Japan has been providing the defense sectors of foreign countries with assistance through realizing a “Capacity Building Program” by the Japanese Defense Ministry, by sharing its practices in human resources management, and pursuing assistance-supporting policies. Mongolia and Japan are collaborating on a basis of a sub-program of cooperation for 2014-2016 in military engineering and medicine. It is in frames of the cooperation for capacity building of the Mongolian armed forces, which was reflected in the Medium- and Long-Term Program of Mongolia-Japan strategic Partnership. The above program covers the two countries’ cooperation in construction a 15-kilometer road to reach the military training center at Tavan Tolgoi, a provision of medical equipment for the new military hospital, an organization of military trainings, and annual “Khaan Quest” exercises. The newly inked agreement, which has been developed at the initiative of Japan’s side, will back also the cooperation in exchange of military personnel for trainings on eliminating disaster damages and conducting peacekeeping operations.

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