Mongolia Eyes Nuclear Ties
Mongolian
Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold will visit Japan next week looking to
enhance economic and security ties. One of Batbold’s primary objectives
for the trip will be to convince Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda
that negotiating an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Mongolia
will be mutually beneficial. Batbold announced that he intends to make
the EPA “one of the key agenda items” and emphasized that an EPA with
Japan would result in a three-fold increase in bilateral trade within
five years.
Linked to this agenda is Mongolia’s desire to acquire Japanese expertise
and investment in the nuclear industry. Ahead of the trip, Batbold
dismissed notions that Mongolia has lost faith in Japan’s nuclear
expertise after the devastating crisis at Fukushima last spring.
Instead, he praised Tokyo’s “high technology in the peaceful use of
nuclear power” and noted that he believed Japan could teach Mongolia
“important lessons from Fukushima.”
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