SPEAKER MEETS JOHN BOEHNER

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In frames of his official visit to the USA, the Speaker of parliament Z.Enkhbold met Wednesday with Mr John Andrew Boehner, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He thanked Mr Boehner for a warm welcome and underlined that during 25 years, passed since the establishment of the Mongolia-USA diplomatic relations, the bilateral ties and cooperation have been developing at a high level based on common values. The legislative bodies of the two nations have been actively cooperating, high level visits implemented have contributed to bringing of the bilateral relations and cooperation into a new level, the two Speakers agreed. A number of resolutions adopted since 1991 by the US Congress on backing Mongolia's democracy, free elections and the market economy, have affirmed the US support and confirmed that our relations and cooperation have reached a high political level, Mr Enkhbold said. Mongolia wants to bring the ties into a strategic partnership level, he underlined. Mr Enkhbold noted that Mongolia, who has good ties both with the North and South Koreas, can work as a mediator in considering urgent issues of the Korean peninsula. He invited members of the US Congress to the parliamentary forum which will run in frames of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies (CoD) this April in Ulaanbaatar. The same day, the Speaker received Mr Ed Royce, the head of the Standing Committee on foreign affairs of the US Congress, to share views on the ties and cooperation between the legislative bodies and their factions. B.Khuder