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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Mongolia Eyes Nuclear Ties

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.” Mongolia’s courtship of Japan’s ... Read More...

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