Türkiye and Mongolia on Monday agreed to additional deepen bilateral relations and maintain extra frequent mutual visits.
“In today’s meetings, we agreed to make more frequent mutual visits from now on,” mentioned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in a joint news convention along with his Mongolian counterpart Batmunkh Battsetseg in Ankara.
Çavuşoğlu additionally famous that the go to is the primary one on the international minister degree from Mongolia for the final 31 years.
He thanked Mongolia and its folks for the assist and solidarity proven after final month’s large earthquakes in southern Türkiye, which have claimed the lives of greater than 48,400 folks.
“A 37-person search and rescue team from Mongolia rescued eight of our citizens from the wreckage in Hatay,” Çavuşoğlu mentioned.
The magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes had been centered in Kahramanmaraş and struck 10 different provinces-Hatay, Gaziantep, Malatya, Adıyaman, Adana, Diyarbakır, Kilis, Osmaniye, Şanlıurfa, and Elazığ. More than 13 million folks have been affected by the devastating quakes.
On bilateral ties, the Turkish minister mentioned: “We need to improve our bilateral relations by working harder in many areas.”
“We previously set a target for our bilateral trade volume. At that time, we had a very symbolic trade volume target, we set it at $100 million. But last year we exceeded $100 million,” he mentioned as he urged to extend this new goal to $500 million, contemplating the speed of improve.
Çavuşoğlu additionally famous that steps to soak up the sector of transportation should be thought of whereas discussing the development of bilateral ties.
The “agreements on investments are out of date, we signed them long ago,” Çavuşoğlu famous, saying the 2 international locations will “celebrate the 55th anniversary of our diplomatic relations, so we need to review and update these agreements.”
He additional drew consideration to the “serious potential in the mining and energy fields,” and urged for the relations within the discipline of training and tradition to be developed.
“We have proposed to expand our relations from comprehensive partnership to strategic partnership,” mentioned Çavuşoğlu, including that they’re ready for the Mongolian facet’s response.
Prior to the news convention, the 2 international locations signed agreements in three fields, together with memoranda of understanding within the discipline of protocol and for cooperation within the discipline of halal high quality infrastructure.
Another deal features a memorandum of understanding between the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and the Mongolian Agency for Standardization and Metrology.
Çavuşoğlu mentioned the agreements will improve the authorized infrastructure of bilateral cooperation of Türkiye and Mongolia.
The Turkish minister additional thanked Mongolia for the assist given within the combat towards terrorism, particularly towards Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the group behind the July 15, 2016 coup try in Türkiye.
Çavuşoğlu introduced that there aren’t any FETÖ associates remaining in Mongolia, in keeping with the knowledge given to Türkiye by Mongolian officers.
Citing Türkiye’s Asia Anew initiative, Çavuşoğlu mentioned his nation returned to Asia with a holistic method as Türkiye is lively within the area with over 1,000 strong tasks.
He emphasised that Asia has turn into the facility middle of the financial system and that politics and international coverage is extraordinarily lively on this area.
Çavuşoğlu additionally famous Mongolia’s necessary international locations in Asia and pledged to additional improve cooperation and relations.
“Mongolia also has a desire to be an observer to the Organization of Turkic States. In this sense, it deserves to obtain observer status both in terms of language and criteria. We will consider this issue later,” he added.
For her half, Mongolia’s Battsetseg mentioned the 2 international locations “are improving our relations, which have a historic background, by attaching more significance.”
“We aim to raise our relations to the strategic partnership level,” she mentioned.
Hoping for relations to proceed bettering and growing the frequency of mutual visits, Battsetseg famous: “We have to cooperate in major projects that will symbolize relations between the two countries.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
