PRESIDENT MEETS SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE GOVERNOR

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ President of Mongolia Kh.Battulga Wednesday met a delegation headed by Mr Heita Kawakatsu, the governor of Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture. Beginning the meeting, the governor congratulated Mr Battulga on becoming the new President of Mongolia, on behalf of people of his Prefecture. The President hopes that East Asian region, especially Japan is a pillar of Mongolia’s economic development, and emphasized importance of the cooperation with Japan for realizing a goal of making Mongolians employed and wealthy. He remembered about starting many works with Shizuoka Prefecture when he was the Minister of Industry and Agriculture. In frames of the cooperation, experts will be trained to build an industrial complex in Dornogobi’s Sainshand soum and to construct a thermal power plant. Moreover, buckwheat is being planted on 40 hectares in Selenge aimag, and this area will be expanded to 80 hectares. Talking about the cooperation on above areas, Mr Kawakatsu believed the bilateral cooperation will widen further. B.Khuder