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Speaker meets KEIDANREN authority

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In frames of the official visit to Japan, the Speaker of parliament Z.Enkhbold Wednesday received Mr Toshiaki Egashira, the chairman of the Committee on Social Security of the Japan Business Federation (KEIDANREN). Thanking the Speaker for receiving him, Mr Egashira expressed a willingness of the KEIDANREN to intensify cooperation with Mongolia. “Widening of the bilateral relations is enhancement of the basis of our ties,” he said and emphasizing that the Top Legislator and MPs of Mongolia significantly contributed to the establishment of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). He is confident that the EPA will expand our economic ties. The Japanese companies want to collaborate with Mongolia in the mining sector which amounts to some 80% of Mongolia’s export, to collaborate in introducing Japanese management and administration know-how, Mr Egashira said. Management and administration trainings through the Japan-Mongolia Center have involved 11 thousand people so far, he added. The Speaker said he is glad to meet the KEIDANREN authority and underlined that a developing of multilateral relations and cooperation with Japan is one of the priorities of Mongolia’s foreign policy, and that Mongolia attaches a great importance to the ties with Japan. Expressing a satisfaction with the bilateral relations, widening in accordance with the strategic partnership principle, the Speaker said Mongolia wants to bring the economic ties into a newer level by enhancing the relations between private sectors and by augmenting investments. He hopes that Japanese parliament will ratify soon the EPA, already ratified by the Mongolian parliament, saying that the document will activate Mongolian and Japanese private sectors. “It is important to support the private sector because our countries have the democratic and market economy system. Likewise the industrialization, the EPA is vital for our economic cooperation,” Enkhbold said. In realizing a concept of Mongolia’s national development, very important are techniques and technologies, staffers trainings, and investments, he went on and asked the KEIDANREN to be initiative in introducing progressive environmentally-friendly techniques and technologies, manufacturing and exporting value-added products, in realizing mutually beneficial mega projects on marketing support. Putting mineral resources into economic circulation and augmenting the value adds will be a big impetus to Mongolia, “so we want to introduce environment rehabilitation hi tech within a ‘Cool Japan’ policy and ‘Developmental pure mechanism’ initiative on reducing greenhouse gas, to use renewable energy, and to cooperate with the KEIDANREN in other spheres,” the Speaker said. He also said Mongolia would like to closely cooperate with the KEIDANREN and its member-organizations in attracting investments, learning and using Japan’s technologies for erecting processing factories, also its know-how, business experience and management in order to widen the bilateral trade and economic cooperation, to intensify export-oriented and import–substitution national productions, to introduce new technologies, and to create new jobs. Mongolia aspires to cooperate with Japanese companies in constructing railways in its eastern region and to introduce the Japanese high tech for producing value-added cashmere goods, he added. Present at the meeting were members of Mongolia-Japan inter-parliamentary group; S.Khurelbaatar, the Ambassador of Mongolia to Japan; A.Gansukh, an advisor to the Speaker.

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