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FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKS ABOUT MONGOLIA-JAPAN RELATIONS

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Foreign Affairs G.Zandanshatar gave Tuesday an interview to the Japanese media who has arrived to make a journey.
The Minister said he satisfied with great efforts the sides are making to realize a shared aim to bring the Mongolia-Japan comprehensive relations into a newer step, enhance the traditional achievements gained in the ties and to expand the cooperation.
"We are ready to develop active cooperation with Japan in establishing an agreement on free trade and economic partnership in a scope of supporting a Democratic Party's initiative to set up Community of East Asia based on friendship and collaboration, in creating a common principle of economic cooperation and in solving urgent problems of environment pollution and climate change," Mr. Zandanshatar said.
"For Mongolia, Japan is its third neighbor. Mongolia is one of the landlocked countries, and it determines its foreign policy with considering this situation and aims to boost close cooperation with developed countries on the third neighborhood principle. This understanding has security, politics and economics issues within," Zandanshatar stressed.
He added that Japan is the biggest neighbor of Mongolia in East Asia, and emphasized that the Mongolia-Japan relations have a priority in Mongolia's foreign policy. "Mongolia attaches a great importance to these relations," he said.
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