Speaker starts official visit to Turkey

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Speaker of the State Great Khural (parliament) Z.Enkhbold Wednesday arrived in the Republic of Turkey to pay an official visit. He has been invited by hid Turkish counterpart Mr Cemil Cicek. On Thursday, Mr Enkhbold laid a a wreath to the Monument of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, in Ankara city, then, he legged the War of Independence Museum and wrote a comment in the Book of honor. The same day, our Speaker and Mr Cemil Cicek, the Head of the National Assembly, held an individual meeting to discuss the bilateral relations, including the inter-parliamentary ties, and collaboration. After this, expanded inter-parliamentary talks ran co-chaired by the two Speakers. Mr Enkhbold pointed out that the two countries’ parliaments must play a main role in the bilateral relations "because the two nations are democratic and have the parliamentary system". He also touched upon issues of widening the bilateral traditional and friendly relations, strengthening the political and legal basis, studying progressive and new contents of Turkish laws, stabilizing the ties between parliamentary offices and friendship groups, and keeping a frequency of inter-parliamentary mutual visits. Mr Enkhbold also proposed expanding the bilateral trade and economic relations. In response, Mr Cicek noted that the Turkish parliament is focusing on developing of the bilateral brotherhood relations, and said his country fully supports proposals put by the Mongolian side on widening the inter-parliamentary ties as well as trade and economic relations and collaboration. Present at these talks were also A.Bakei, a head of the Mongolia-Turkey inter-parliamentary group; D.Battsogt and D.Sarangerel MPs; B.Batkhishig, the Ambassador of Mongolia to Turkey; Volkan Bozkir, a head of the Turkish parliamentary Standing committee on foreign policy; Irfan Neziroglu, the secretary-general of the National Assembly; Bahadir Yakut, a head of the External Relations section of parliament; and Murat Karagoz, the Ambassador of Turkey to Mongolia. After the talks, an intergovernmental agreement on citizens’ mutual traveling was signed by the Mongolian Ambassador B.Batkhishig and by the Director-General of the Consular Department Sakir Fakili.