Speaker of Parliament Delves Into Mongolia-japan Partnership

Speaker of Parliament M.Enkhbold gave an interview about his latest visit to Japan.

He spoke about prospect cooperation plans between the two countries in the areas of health, economy, jurisdiction and more. Many spectators observe that your visit to Japan on March 27 will significantly contribute to the Mongolian economy.

How would you evaluate your visit?This year is the 45th anniversary of Mongolia and Japan's diplomatic relations. The foreign affairs ministries of both countries planned out ways to celebrate the anniversary.

Embassies in Tokyo and Ulaanbaatar will focus on organizing anniversary events at both sides. Within the framework of the anniversary, foreign affairs ministers and legislators have scheduled state visits.

As scheduled, I visited Japan through an invitation from Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima.During the visit, Parliament representatives had open discussions about exchanging experience and expanding relations and cooperation.

I also met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and went over the International Monetary Fund's extended fund facility program (IMF extended program), bilateral economic cooperation, and sustainable sectoral partnership.Through the IMF extended program, the Japanese government agreed to provide financial assistance to Mongolia.

We discussed the possibility to jointly implement effective projects and programs for correctly managing natural resources in Mongolia and Japan's technology, grants and human resource. For example, we had honest discussions about the establishment of a complex coal chemistry industry, production of gas and petroleum products, relevant studies, energy provision in the Northeastern Asia, and the role of Mongolia and Japan in this.

A medium-term Strategic Partnership Program was approved during the state visit. Mongolian and Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministers signed the agreement, opening the opportunity to carry out the program.

The program includes all cooperation activities between the two countries until 2021. Financial organizations renewed documents developed in 2014 and established an agreement on direct financial cooperation between the Mongolian Financial Regulatory Commission and Japanese Financial Services Agency.There's another successful negotiation I can't leave out.

Our ministries discussed sending Mongolians to Japan through internship programs and reached some agreements, which is very significant.What kinds of measures have...