Улаанбаатар
Japanese lawmakers visit new airport construction site
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ As a part of a visit, a delegation headed by Mr Kazunori Tanaka, member of the House of Representatives (lower house) of Japanese parliament and chairman of the external relations division at the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Saturday visited the construction site of a new international airport of Ulaanbaatar in Khoshig Valley, Tov aimag.
76 per cent of the construction works has been completed, officials said.
D.Gankhuyag MP, head of the Mongolia-Japan parliamentary group who joined the Japanese delegation during their trip to Khoshig valley, underlined that building the new airport in Khoshig Valley is one of many projects and actions co-initiated by MPs of the two countries.
“First initiative of the construction works was made during 2005 and 2006. Mongolian parliament adopted a soft-loan agreement in 2008 which made possible to lunch the initiative forwarded in 2005 and 2006, in 2013,” Mr Gankhuyag told the Japanese delegation.
The airport is special for being located on the crosspoint of air routs linking Asia and Europe and North America, and for this it could even become a hub of East Asian flights, he emphasized.
Recently, the Mongolian parliament delivered to the government a draft parliamentary resolution on creating a free trade and service zone relying on the new airport, informed D.Gankhuyag and added that the darft resolution is to be discussed by parliament soon.
