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Thu, 02/24/2011 - 13:58
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PRIME MINISTERS HOLD INDIVIDUAL MEETING

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ A ceremony ran Tuesday in Canberra city to welcome the Prime Minister S.Batbold who is paying an official visit to Australia.
It started with marine troops, air and land forces ceremonial greetings and a march of artillery forces, then the Prime Minister of Australia Mrs. Julia Gillard welcomed her Mongolian counterpart. The artillery paid a respect to the Mongolian Premier by firing a salute nine times. In fact, Batbold is the very first of Mongolia's Premier to pay Australia a visit since the establishment of the diplomatic relations.
The Premiers have held an individual meeting. Mr. Batbold thanked for the audience, expressed a willingness to bring the Mongolia-Australia relations and cooperation into a level of expanded partnership, and emphasized that the countries have a great opportunity to intensify the cooperation in the fields of trade, economics, and investment based on friendly political ties.
Mentioning that the government of Mongolia is maintaining a policy to boost the sectors of industry and great construction based on its mineral resources and to develop the economics based on education, the Mongolian Premier pointed out that Mongolia wants to become an active and effective participant in the regional collaboration and interdependence of trade, economics and investment spheres adding Mongolia wants to boost a close cooperation with the strongest in the region countries, including Australia, in realization of the above goals.
Mr. Batbold pointed out that Australia's developmental experience acts as a model for Mongolia and that it adheres to a policy to train Mongolian students in Australian universities and institutes and to support investments from Australia.
He said Mongolia is carrying out an active policy in Northeast Asia and East Asia, and expressed a willingness to join the regional multilateral activities such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the East Asia Summit (EAS). Then he expressed a hope Australian will support Mongolia's efforts, and invited Mrs. Gillard to visit Mongolia.
In response, Mrs. Gillard congratulated the Mongolian Premier on paying the official visit to Australia for the first time, and stated there are a lot of matters related to the both countries.
Mrs. Gillard emphasized an importance of establishing a memorandum regarding an intensive development of the two countries who cherish democracy and free market and have large resources of minerals.
Mrs. Gillard said Australia decided to open a permanent representative of trade in Mongolia. “It is important to cooperate in the peacekeeping operations. Now our countries ought to widen the economic collaboration,” Mrs. Gillard stressed. In addition to it, she promised to pay an attention to changing the visa terms for Mongolia in accordance with the Premier's request.
S.Batbold thanked the Australian side for supporting Mongolian democracy and market economy and for rendering financial and developmental assistance. He expressed a condolence over deaths of people due to floods occurred in Queensland and Victoria States.
B.Khuder

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