Speaker receives parliamentary delegation of South Korea

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Speaker of the State Great Khural Z.Enkhbold met Tuesday a delegation headed by Mr Ahn Hong Joon, head of the Standing committee on foreign affairs and unification of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea. Mr Ahn Hong Joon noted that the countries have been cooperating in all sectors since the establishment of the diplomatic relations in 1990. “As of today, some 30 thousand Mongolian citizens are residing in the Republic of Korea. We are focusing on a matter of facilitating the visa term for Mongolians, and consulting an issue on positively tackling the problem with those who illegally entered the Korean territory, and allowing them to enter the country,” Mr Ahn Hong Joon said, and then underlined an importance for Mongolia to support foreign investments. The Speaker said that he was satisfied with expanding of the bilateral relations and cooperation in all sectors. He highlighted an importance of the inter-parliamentary relations for developing the bilateral relations and cooperation and fortifying its base. “I am happy that a number of parliamentarians at the Korea’s National Assembly, who are really friendly with Mongolia is growing. As the Republic of Korea is a close partner of Mongolia in the region, Mongolia is attaching an importance to developing the mutually-beneficial collaboration with the South Korea in the mining and infrastructure fields and in making investments to the biggest projects and programmes,” Mr Enkhbold underlined. Mentioning that protecting interests of Mongolians abroad and facilitating the visa terms for Mongolians are important goals of the cabinet for reforms, the Speaker extended gratitude to the Korean side for the protection of interests for Mongolian citizens, and hoped that the help of Korea will continue further. Mr Ahn Hong Joon expressed a confidence that this visit will contribute to expanding the inter-parliamentary ties.