Speaker Z.Enkhbold holds officials talks with Lok Sabha Chairwoman

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2016-04-19 14:36:49

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Chairman of the State Great Khural (parliament) of Mongolia Z.Enkhbold and the Speaker of the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the Indian parliament Ms Sumitra Mahajan Tuesday held official talks at the State House. Mr Enkhbold thanked Ms Sumitra for paying the official visit to Mongolia, “this is the first visit of India since the two countries brought their relationship into a strategic partnership level in 2015”.

High level mutual visits have been regularizing, “and I am satisfied with the Indian Speaker’s visit that has been coinciding with the 9th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting in Ulaanbaatar”, he said.

In response, Ms Sumitra thanked the Mongolian Speaker for the warm meeting and expressed a satisfaction with broadening of the Mongolia-India long-year relations and with enriching them with new contents. She underlined a historical significance of the state visit of the Indian Premier Narendra Modi to Mongolia last year.

The Mongolia-India relations and cooperation, based on historical and cultural ties, on common values of democracy, on bilateral willingness to ensure regional and international peace and stability, have been intensively developing under by the strategic partnership principle, Mr Enkhbold said. He also underlined that the very first visit of the Indian PM to Mongolia, in times of the 60th anniversary of the diplomatic relations in 2015, lifted up the friendly relations in IT, renewable energy, industry and agriculture spheres, not mentioning traditional areas such as culture and education.

The Speaker pointed out that the Mongolian FM plans to visit India late this month in order to sign a general credit agreement on a one billion US dollars soft loan granted by India, and that our parliament is to authorize this week the government to discuss and sign this  agreement.

Ms Sumitra said India and Mongolia--similar in historical things and vast territories--have been keeping their traditional friendly relations. India attaches a great importance to supporting the landlocked countries such as Mongolia, Bhutan and Nepal.

One of the main directions of India’s foreign policy is to fully support Mongolia that has become an example in the region by its democratic way, she went on. Mongolia has big mineral resources, while India--highly developed technologies. If to combine these advantages, our countries will gain fruitful opportunities and a brighter future in the cooperation, Ms Sumitra said.

Mr Enkhbold said the inter-parliamentary mutual visits immensely contributed not only to expanding of the cooperation between the two legislative bodies, but also to the whole bilateral relations. He stressed am significance of the Indian policy on backing the landlocked countries and said Mongolia is working on establishing the International Think-Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries, in Ulaanbaatar.

Mr Enkhbold expressed a willingness of Mongolia to boost the win-win, mutually-satisfying and sustainable cooperation in economy and trade with India, and emphasized an importance of the Mongolia-India cooperation joint committee in terms of designing frames of the trade and economic collaboration, proper directions and forms, and of supporting the ties between the private sectors.

He congratulated India on its increasing position and influence in the world and in region, and said Mongolia wants to maintain a tradition of supporting each other at international and regional arenas and of strengthening a cooperation within the UN, international and regional organizations. He is confident that Indian high level delegation will participate in the 11th ASEM Summit, which will run here this July.

The high guest supported the Mongolian Speaker’s opinions on the bilateral cooperation in several spheres, and said India is attaching a great importance to the development of its remote regions, Mongolia may be willing to learn this experience, as well as that of Research Bureau and the Office at the Indian parliament.

She also said that a delegation, led by the Indian FM, will participate in the 11th ASEM Summit, and congratulated Mongolia on hosting such a grand event.

The Mongolian Speaker expressed a satisfaction with holding these talks, which covered Mongolia-India relations and cooperation, regional and international issues, and said that developing the ties and collaboration with India is one of the priorities of the Mongolian foreign policy.

Present at the talks were D.Demberel MP, a head of the Mongolia-India inter-parliamentary group; B.Boldbaatar, a secretary-general of the Parliamentary Office; D.Gankhuyag, the State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry; Ts.Narantungalag, a head of the External Relations Division at the Parliamentary Office; and other officials. 

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