FM DELIVERS REPORT ON FOREIGN POLICY AND REGION COOPERATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Foreign Minister of Mongolia L.Purevsuren gave a report about Mongolia's foreign policy and the regional cooperation at the 8th governing board meeting of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and at the ERIA’s Dialogue Partnership held June 5 in Jakarta of Indonesia. Mongolia is aiming to forward the cooperation with the ERIA in politics and economic spheres therefore the country intends to become a member of the ASEAN Talks and the East Asian Summit. It has been considered that the ERIA could be a way for Mongolia to fulfill these goals. At the meeting, the FM said the President of Mongolia has proposed founding an Asian Forum that would unite the Asian countries in political, economic and developmental purposes, and underlined that Mongolia wants to contribute to the Asian regional developmental big issues such as energy, industrial cluster, infrastructure and economic corridor. After Mr Purevsuren, the ERIA Executive Director Mr Hidetoshi Nishimura talked about cooperation projects and programs being implemented with Mongolia, and underlined an importance of Mongolian contribution to the development of the economic cooperation in Asia.