The President of Mongolia Tsakhia Elbegdorj met with
Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June
7, 2012. President Ts.Elbegdorj attend the Beijing summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.

Tsakhia Elbegdorj and Hu Jintao discussed a number of
common concerns and exchanged views on ways to enhance ties. President
Elbegdorj praised China”s role within the SCO, and congratulated Beijing on
successfully completing its term as the SCO”s rotating presidency.

China upholds foreign policy which safeguard the
security of its neighbors, make friends with and bring properity to them said
Hu.

Acknowledging Mongolia”s foreign
policy of prioritizing its relations with China, Hu said China would like to
continuously cement and expand its good-neighborly friendship with Mongolia,
while pushing forward bilateral ties.

Since the two countries inked
their strategic partnership last year, China and Mongolia have enjoyed
surging bilateral trade and more frequent personnel exchanges, said the
Chinese president.

In order to further advance
bilateral ties, China and Mongolia should continuously boost political mutual
trust, said Hu, adding China will continue to strengthen practical
cooperation with Mongolia based on the concept of reciprocality and common
prosperity.

Hu expressed hope that both sides
could utilize respective advantages to upgrade cooperation on mineral
resources, infrastructure construction, and finance, so to enrich the
bilateral strategic partnership and benefit the two countries and their two
peoples.

For his part, Elbegdorj said the
two nations have developed bilateral relations in a sound way, strengthened
political mutual trust and mutual beneficial cooperation, adding that China is
the biggest trade partner and investor for his country.

Hailing the establishment of
strategic partnership as a milestone for bilateral ties, Elbegdorj said the
Mongolian side is firmly dedicated to expanding long-enduring,
good-neighborly and friendly cooperation with China.

Mongolia would like to enhance
senior official contacts and communications of parliaments and parties
between the two countries, as well as collectively fight drug trafficking and
other transnational crimes, while promoting major projects to upgrade
economic and infrastructure construction cooperation with China, said
Elbegdorj.

He also expressed hope that both
countries could seize the opportunity of hosting mutual cultural years to
improve friendship between their two peoples.

As an observer of the SCO that
groups China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,
Elbegdorj said Mongolia supports the SCO”s development and would like to
boost communication and coordination with China on multilateral and regional
affairs.