PRESIDENT MEETS CHAIR OF FRIENDSHIP GROUP

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In frames of the working visit to Japan, the President of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj Wednesday received Mr Satsuki Eda, a leader of the Mongolia-Japan Parliamentary Friendship Group at the House of Representatives (lower house), in Tokyo. Mr Eda said he will continue to enhance inter-parliamentary ties and emphasized that the countries reached an agreement in principle to establish the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), Here he added that the Japanese parliament will give its support to approving it. After this meeting, the President received Mr Heita Kawakatsu, the governor of Shizuoka Prefecture. They discussed such matters as preparing staffers and engineers for the coal sector of Mongolia, ways to widen ties between Mongolian aimags and other Prefectures.