Prime Minister S.Batbold received earlier this week Wang
Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) Central Committee, to discuss bilateral ties. Batbold, who is also
chairman of the MPRP, said Mongolia will continue to work with China to add new
substance to the two countries’ good-neighborly partnership of mutual trust and
push the ties to a new stage. Developing a stronger relationship with China is
among the priorities of the foreign policy of his government, and is also in
the interests of the two peoples, he added.

Wang conveyed the sincere greetings and good wishes of
President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other Chinese leaders to Batbold,
and said China would like to make joint efforts with Mongolia to implement the
consensus reached between leaders of the two countries, taking into account
each other”s core interest and major concerns. The two sides should forever be
good neighbors, friends and partners, he added.