About Educaton Minister's visit to Japan

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Education and Sciences of Mongolia L.Gantomor MP made a working visit to Japan November 18-22. He met with the Minister of Education, Culture, Sport and Science H.Shimomura, the Deputy FM J.Ihara, the Chairman of Japan-Mongolia friendship group at the Liberal Democratic Party M.Hayashi and others. At the meetings, the sides noted an importance of the "Middle-term program of strategy partnership between Mongolia and Japan", which was established during the visit of Mongolia's PM N.Altankhuyag to Japan, and talked about its realization. Mr Gantomor said that hi technology and natural sciences experts are needed in a stability development of Mongolia and asked the Japanese side to educate our cadres in Mongolia and to continue educating our students in the Japanese top universities. He also expressed a willingness to introduce experience of Institute of National Colleges of Technology of Japan to Mongolia and to establish a joint Mongolia-Japan technology school. The sides agreed to strengthen a collaboration between scientists and researchers and to foster relations between universities. The delegation also met with leaders of "Riken" Advanced Science Institute, Japan International Cooperation Agency, University of Tokyo to share ideas of creating a Mongol studies center. In the frames of the visit, Mr Gantomor attended a ceremony at which cooperation memorandum was inked between Education and Human development schools of the Mongolian State University of Education and Nagoya University of Japan. After this, Mr Gantomor visited Niigata prefecture and Nagaoka city to grant the Order of "Polar Star" to a head of Niigata-Mongolia friendship association Mr Ts.Kimura and the "Friendship" medal to executive director of this association Mr H.Hasegawa on occasion of the 41st anniversary of the diplomatic relations establishment between Mongolia and Japan. Other meeting were run with a governor of Niigata prefecture H.Izumida and Mayor of Nagaoka city T.Mori.