The Chairman of the State Great Khural Z.Enkhbold Tuesday received Mr Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, within his official visit to Japan. Mr Abe said he is satisfied with the Mongolian Speaker's visit, which is coincided with the 43rd anniversary of the diplomatic relations, and underlined an importance of this visit for the bilateral political and economic cooperation.

In response, Mr Enkhbold emphasized that people and the state of Mongolia are always grateful to  Japan for supporting the Mongolian democracy and reforms. He said he highly values Mr Abe's initiatives, "which have a great importance for our economic cooperation". Noting that Mongolian parliament ratified the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), recently signed by the Premiers of the two countries, Mr Enkhbold hoped that Japan’s parliament will ratify the Agreement in the nearest future.

Mr Abe said that Japanese businessmen are interested in investing in Mongolia, and expressed a hope that the Mongolian Speaker will pay attention to forming nice conditions for the investors. He also  thanked the Mongolian parliament for ratifying the EPA and said his country’s parliament intends to ratify it very soon.

An increasing frequency of high-level meetings proves that the bilateral relations and cooperation have become very close, "a grand champion of professional sumo ‘Hakuho’ M.Davaajargal has gained a brilliant success, and I am confident that he will enhance this success," Mr Abe said.

The Speaker asked Mr Abe to back those Japanese companies that want to participate in a project on the railway construction in a eastern region of Mongolia, saying the “Nippon steel” Japanese company has already expressed a readiness to supply rails iron.

Mongolia's cashmere accounts for 40 percent of the world market but only ten percent of it is processed, Mr Enkhbold noted and expressed a willingness to introduce the Japanese high tech so as to supply the world with the processed cashmere.

Present at the meeting were also N.Battsereg MP, a member of Mongolia-Japan inter-parliamentary group; S.Batbold, a head of the parliamentary Standing committee on environment, food and agriculture and deputy head of the inter-parliamentary group; D.Gankhuyag MP, a head of the inter-parliamentary group; J.Batzandan MP, a member of the inter-parliamentary group; S.Khurelbaatar, the Ambassador of Mongolia to Japan; A.Gansukh, an advisor to the Speaker; and other officials.