Japanese
Prime Minister N.Kan has written to Premier S.Batbold that Japanese companies
hope to participate in the Tavantolgoi project. The letter has been sent
through N.Koga, a member of the Japanese Diet and a senior leader of the
Japan-Mongolia Friendship Group, who called on Batbold yesterday

At
their meeting, Batbold said that development of all-round cooperation with
Japan is a priority in the foreign policy of Mongolia and the recent decision
to have a strategic partnership has opened a new page in bilateral
relations.  Koga expressed the gratitude
of the Japanese people for the help from the Mongolian Government and people at
the time of the disaster earlier this year.