JAPAN TO GIVE NON-PROJECT GRANT AID

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The government of Japan will render a non-project grant aid of JPY 300 million or about USD 3 million to Mongolia in the 2013 financial year. A related intergovernmental note was signed Wednesday by Mr L.Bold, Mongolia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by Mr Seiji Kihara, Japan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Ulaanbaatar. With this grant aid, the Japanese side will supply Mongolia with sets of physical exercise and care equipment, medical training facilities, tools for educating visually-challenged people and for forest and steppe fire combating. The grant aid’s recipients are the Ministry of Population’s Development and Social Welfare, Ministry of Health and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The Japanese government aims to implement recovery, rehabilitation and development project in Tsunami-affected areas in frames of official development assistance (ODA) in order to support small- and middle-sized productions in the areas by supplying locally-made products to developing nations as a grant aid. This grant is given us within this project. The non-project grant aid realized by the Japanese government generally aims to support the economic structure reform policy of developing countries, to reduce debts of these nations and to help them buy necessary products and materials. Mongolia received the ODA of JPY 2 billion in each of 1991, 1992 and 1993, JPY one billion in 1994, JPY 2 billion in 1996, JPY 2.5 billion in 1997, JPY 900 million in 1998, JPY 1.9 billion in 1999, JPY 1.2 billion in 1.2 billion, JPY 300 million in 2005, and JPY 200 million in 2013.