FM MEETS JAPANESE FOREIGN DEPUTY MINISTER

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Foreign Minister L.Bold met Thursday with Deputy Foreign Minister of Japan Seiji Kihara on June 6. At the beginning of the meeting, Mr Bold expressed a pleasure with advancing development of Mongolia-Japan relationship and cooperation into a level of strategic partnership, and highlighted the impetus reciprocal visits of the Prime Ministers of the two countries have given to relations between Mongolia and Japan. Highlighting the importance of Economic Partnership Agreement in developing the trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, Mr Bold expressed a confidence that the document will be signed within this year. Mr Kihara promised that he will make efforts in developing active political and economic relationship between the two countries.