Mongolia’s
Foreign Affairs Minister L.Bold paid an official visit to the Republic of Korea
on February 12-14. During his visit, the Minister held official talks with
Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se. The parties emphasized that
bilateral relations are increasingly developing at the comprehensive
partnership level in all spheres and expressed confidence that the present
visit will make an important contribution to fostering bilateral
ties.
This is
the first official visit paid at the Mongolia’s Foreign Minister’s level to the
Republic of Korea in
the past ten years. During the talks, Minister L.Bold focused on issues
concerning the facilitation
of travel conditions for Mongolian citizens to the Republic of Korea.
Highlighting
the remarkable progress achieved in this regard thanks to an agreement in 2012,
Minister
L.Bold forwarded a proposal on introducing visa-free conditions to improve
travel conditions for citizens of the two countries even more. Before doing so
however, he suggested ceasing
the deposit requirement to obtain a Korean visa that breaches the 2012 agreement.
In turn, Minister Yun Byung-se pledged to study possibilities for easing travel
conditions for Mongolian
citizens without making deposits and to consider establishment of a visa waiver
agreement.
Considering
that the Republic of Korea is one of the world leading economies with high
technology, the sides agreed that the volume of investments made by the
Republic of Korea
to Mongolia is insufficient and that a profound change shall be made in this regard.
Thereby, the sides highlighted that the creation of an intergovernmental
mechanism for economic
cooperation is an adequate way of stimulating investment in the largest
construction projects in the mining and infrastructure spheres, and intensification
of bilateral mutually
beneficial
collaboration in the areas of technology, human resources and management.
In 2015,
Mongolia and the Republic of Korea will mark the 25th year of
diplomatic relations. In this light, the sides agreed it is important to host
high-level visits. Conveying greetings of the President of the Republic of
Korea to the President of Mongolia, Minister Yun Byung-se invited the
latter to visit the Republic of Korea at his convenience. Minister L.Bold held
a business meeting with Kim Kwan-jin, Minister of National Defense of the
Republic of Korea.
Recalling
a meeting with L.Bold when he was Minister of Defense of Mongolia three years ago,
Minister Kim Kwan- jin noted that since then, bilateral relations in the
defense sphere has noticeably expanded, the number of Mongolian servicemen
studying in the Republic of Korea has
doubled, and the sides have made strides in supplying military techniques and
joint participation in peacekeeping operations.
Minister
L.Bold paid a courtesy call on Lee Byung-suk, Vice Speaker of the National
Assembly of the Republic of Korea (ROK). Emphasizing the prominent role of
inter-parliamentary cooperation in the development of bilateral political ties,
Minister L.Bold called for closer interaction to organize a visit of Mongolia’s
Parliament Speaker Z.Enkhbold to the Republic of Korea
in March 2014. Saying that the protection of interests of citizens employed in
foreign countries, particularly in the Republic of Korea, is one of the
foremost goals of the Government of Mongolia, Minister L.Bold requested to
continue paying particular attention to the improvement of living conditions of
Mongolians, and taking staged actions towards the facilitation
of travel conditions for people.
The same
day, Foreign Minister L.Bold held a meeting with Ryoo Kihl-jae Minister of
Unification.
The latter
highly valued Mongolia’s participation in building peace and stability on the
Korean Peninsula and spoke for the extension of bilateral cooperation in this
direction. At all the meetings, the focus was on the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on
Northeast Asian Security which targets building peace and security in the
region, in particular, on the Korean Peninsula by means of
dialogue.
There are
over 25 thousand citizens of Mongolia studying and working in the Republic of
Korea. On the first day of his visit, Minister L.Bold held a meeting with
representatives of the Mongolian community. At the meeting, Minister L.Bold
presented the policies pursued and actions carried out by the Government for Changes
and discussed problems the Mongolian community is facing and possible
solutions, reported the Press Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia.
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