Parliament Speaker to visit Japan

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Chairman of the State Great Khural Z.Enkhbold will pay a working visit to Japan on June 1-3. In the scope of the forthcoming visit, Z.Enkhbold will hold meetings with Tadamori Oshima, the Speaker of the House of Representatives; Masaaki Yamazaki, the President of the House of Councillors of Japan’s parliament; and Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan. He will attend a ceremony of signing a cooperation memorandum to be established between the Mongolian Ministry of Labor, and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare. This document will enable both countries to reach a certain agreement on sending labor force to Japan and involving Mongolians in vocational training in Japan. As of today, some 1,500 practitioners from Mongolia are working in Japan. In addition, the Speaker will witness a signing of a cooperation of memorandum on supporting the clean coal technologies exchange to be established between the Mining Ministry of Mongolia and the Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The memorandum will allow countries to focus joint efforts on enhancing clean coal technologies share, promoting joint researches and implementing coal-to-gas and coke briquette production projects. As a part of his visit, the Speaker will get familiar with the “Nakaso” thermal power plant which introduced the technology of integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC). He will also visit the “Prime Polymer” company in Chiba Prefecture, and then will meet Mongolian practitioners in the Shibasaki factory in Saitama Prefecture as well. The Speaker will be accompanied by G.Bayarsaikhan, the Minister of Labor; R.Jigjid, the Minister of Mining; Ts.Buyantsogtoo, B.Bayarsaikhan, advisors to the Speaker; and other officials.