SPEAKER RECEIVES AMBASSADOR OF CHINA

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ On Tuesday, the Speaker Z.Enkhbold received Mr. Wang Xiaolong, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Mongolia. The ambassador thanked Z.Enkhbold for the audience despite a very tight schedule of forming a new cabinet. "This year is special for our countries, Mongolia organized this June its parliamentary election, forming new leaders of the state, while the Communist Party of China is about to select its authorities," he said. It is very important for us to keep the mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation, he went on. Thanks to efforts of the sides, Mongolia-China relations have been forwarding by giving many new opportunities, an establishment of the strategic partnership relations was one of the highlights in the ties, he stressed. The Speaker expressed satisfaction with seeing China's Ambassador and conveyed his thanks to Wu Bangguo, the Chairman and Party secretary of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, for a congratulatory telegram. The Speaker said every generation of our parliament and government adhere to a policy on developing of the good neighborhood, long-time and mutually beneficial relations and cooperation with China, "and we have a goal to boost our strategic partnership with economic content." The Speaker hoped that an upcoming visit of Mr. Dai Bingguo, a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, to Mongolia will be fruitful. B.Khuder