PRIME MINISTER MEETS INDIAN SPEAKER

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister of Mongolia S.Batbold received Monday a delegation led by Mrs. Meira Kumar, the Speaker of the Parliamentary Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the Republic of India, who is paying an official visit to Mongolia at invitation of the Parliament Speaker D.Demberel.
Beginning the meeting, the Premier said the two countries have been developing their long-year traditional and friendly relations. He underlined that, although the 55th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic relations is celebrated this year, the history of Mongolia-India relations are over thousand years old.
The Premier is confident that the official visit of the Speaker of the Parliamentary Lower House will significantly contribute to the widening of the bilateral relations and cooperation. Mr. Batbold mentioned that the Mongolia-India ties have been expanding in the parliamentary, cultural, educational, humanitarian and health spheres, and noted that an opportunity is open for Mongolia to cooperate with India in exploiting IT and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and to expand the mining collaboration.
“Developing IT is a high important developmental way for the landlocked Mongolia. We intend to establish IT development center of Mongolia called Silicon Valley. Thus it is important for my country to study the Indian experiences, receive assistance and to develop collaboration,” Mr. Batbold said. He noted that Mongolia wants to increase number of its students to study in India, to share experiences, to train specialists and to exchange professionals.
In response, Mrs. Kumar emphasized that Mongolia is successfully developing the parliamentary democracy, and said she is satisfied with the bilateral parliamentary level ties and collaboration as well as with intensive development of mechanism of the high level mutual visits.
Mrs. Kumar underlined that Mongolia may serve as an example in terms of developing the electoral system, democracy and parliamentarism, and emphasized that a lot of things should be learnt from Mongolia.
“The relations of our countries are based on spiritual connections. We always want to develop the political mutual confidence and the mutually beneficial economic ties and collaboration with Mongolia,” Mrs. Kumar stressed.
Mrs. Kumar reported that the Indian side decided to increase twice number of Mongolian students to study in India with its scholarships. She noted it is possible for the two sides to boost the cooperation in training professionals and exploiting mining and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
At the end of the meeting, Mrs. Kumar and accompanying her officials expressed a satisfaction with getting au fait with Mongolian culture, custom, arts and the Three Manly Games during the visit.
B.Khuder