Fruitful Visit
PRESIDENT of Mongolia Natsagiin Bagabandi, accompanied by his wife Madame A.
Oyumbileg, senior officials and businessmen, concluded his three-day State Visit to Nepal,
which has been described as fruitful and meaningful in strengthening bilateral relations
and expanding economic cooperation between Nepal and Mongolia. A joint statement was
issued at the end of Mongolian president’s State Visit, which states that both Nepal
and Mongolia reviewed the present state of bilateral relations and agreed to explore and
utilise possibilities of expanding trade and economic cooperation. Nepal and Mongolia had
signed a trade agreement in 1992, which both the countries now want to put into practice
in order to boost Nepal-Mongolia trade and economic cooperation. President Bagabandi
invited His Majesty the King and Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to visit to Mongolia
at their convenient time, which both His Majesty the King and Prime Minister Koirala have
accepted with pleasure. Mongolia has shown a keen interest to explore the possibilities of
exporting wool to Nepal while Nepal has put forward the proposal to export Nepalese
handicraft products especially Buddhist artifacts to Mongolia. As Both Mongolian and Nepal
are landlocked, developing and high land countries, there is a strong possibilities of
cooperation in the field of agriculture and high land pasturing for which both the
countries have agreed to assist one another. Mongolia even went to offer some scholarships
to Nepal in the field of agriculture and high land pasturing. The most important of all is
the Mongolia’s interest to send its defence personnel to Nepal for peace keeping
training at the Royal Nepalese Army’s peacekeeping Training Center, to which Nepal
has said to give a most favourable consideration. As Nepal has been making a significant
contribution to United Nations’ efforts in peacekeeping and peace building in
different troubles spots in the world, Mongolia’s desire to train its defence
personnel on peace keeping operation in Nepal is an international recognition of
Nepal’s high quality training in peace keeping. It is also a big success of
Nepal’s foreign policy, which is, of course, a matter of pride for Nepal. Nepal and
Mongolia also signed a framework agreement covering all these issues, which is taken as an
important milestone in the history of relations between these two countries. Despite the
establishment of diplomatic relations more than 30 years ago and many similarities
cooperation and relations between Nepal and Mongolia are so far limited. But
Bagabandi’s recent State Visit would contribute a lot in expanding meaningful and
practical relations and cooperation between Nepal and Mongolia.
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