Premier And Germany's Chancellor Hold Official Talks

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister S.Batbold and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Mrs Angela Merkel held Thursday official talks in the Government House.
The Premier said the official visit of Germany's Chancellor opened a new chapter in the Mongolia-Germany ties and that it significantly forwarded the bilateral relations. Germany is one of the "Third Neighbors" of Mongolia and its biggest partner in the European Union (EU), he said. It is time for the EU to open its representative in Mongolia, he went on, and asked Mrs Merkel to give a support to this matter.
The Premier said Mongolia wants to become a participant country of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and requested the German side to support the interests of Mongolia at an upcoming Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the OSCE to run this December in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Noting that Mongolia aims to process mining raw materials and manufacture value-added products instead of exporting them to foreign countries, the PM said Mongolia wants to cooperate with Germany in introducing its techniques and technologies and know-how.
The Premier thanked the German side for augmenting a volume of the Special Drawing Right issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He proposed Germany to implement together the biggest projects and programs on infrastructure, apartment construction and urban development such as the Sainshand industrial complex and the “100 thousand apartments” program, and to study possibilities of reducing the railway tariffs in exporting raw materials to Germany's market and refining upon the China-Mongolia-Russia-Poland-Germany railway. He emphasized that the two countries have an opportunity to collaborate in producing energy with renewable energy resources.
The Premier proposed Mrs Merkel to cooperate also in creating a comprehensive laboratory and institute for minerals, adding Mongolia is looking for possibilities to have techniques and technologies and for supporting investments to erect small- and middle-sized factories processing agricultural raw materials, and for developing intensified animal husbandry.
In turn, Mrs Merkel expressed a satisfaction with visiting Mongolia, and congratulated Mongolia on successfully developing the democracy in the last 20 years. She was wondering how Mongolia reached such high results in the economic growth, she said, and underlined an importance of maintaning the sustainable growth of economics.
The Chancellor promised to focus on opening the EU Representative in Mongolia and to support Mongolia in becoming a cooperation partnership country of the OSCE. She appreciated the Premier's proposals to collaborate in the law, education and health sectors, continue material and technical assistance in providing Mongolian military personnel with the latest techniques. She emphasized that Germany will be a good, reliable and sustainable partner of Mongolia.
B.Khuder