Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met his Mongolian counterpart Saikhanbayar Gursed here on Tuesday and discussed ways to add further momentum to defence cooperation between the two countries.
New Delhi, Sep. 4 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will embark on a five-day visit to Mongolia and Japan beginning Monday with an aim to expand India’s strategic and defence ties with the two countries in the backdrop of evolving regional security matrix and geo-political turmoil. Singh’s visit to Mongolia from September 5 to 7 will be the first-ever tour to the East Asian country by an Indian defence minister. In Japan, Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will join their Japanese counterparts under the framework of ‘2+2’ foreign and defence ministerial dialogue, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. From Mongolia, the defence minister will travel to Japan for a two-day visit from September 8 to 9. The ‘2+2’ dialogue is set to take place on September 8. The dialogue is taking place over five months after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited India for the annual India-Japan summit. At the summit in New Delhi, Kishi
President U.Khurelsukh received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China Chai Wenrui on June 13.The Ambassador conveyed that Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to President of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh on his birthday.Emphasizing the importance of developing friendly relations between Mongolia and China, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed readiness to work with his Mongolian counterpart to elevate bilateral relations and cooperation.The Chinese side reaffirmed its readiness to implement the visit of the Mongolian President to China in the first turn.Ambassador Chai Wenrui noted that even during the pandemic, the Mongolia-China friendly relations and cooperation have been deepening in all sectors and political mutual trust has been enhancing alongside the development of humanitarian relations, strengthening of the people-to-people ties and expansion of cooperation on international and regional issues.The Ambassador said that
The 14th Mongolia-UK Round Table Meeting took place on May 12, 2022, in Ulaanbaatar. The delegation of Mongolia was headed by Minister of Education and Science L.Enkh-Amgalan while the delegation of the United Kingdom (UK) was headed by Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Amanda Milling.