January 2017 \ News \ MONGOLIA
“India is our major partner in the region”

Interview with H.E. Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia

We are fully intended to develop mutually beneficial and sustainable trade and economic relations between our countries. As of 2015, the trade volume between our countries had reached USD19,8 million which is considerably lower of the potentials both our countries have in increasing our economic relations.

In the last 60 years, we have successfully deepened our cooperation in the fields of politics, defense, culture, education, economic relations and humanitarian assistance, and we have mutually supported each other in the international and regional arena. I am confident that our two nations have great future, and our bilateral relations will expand and enrich with more possibilities. 

You have rich political experience, and you have served as Minister and Cabinet member several times. What had led you to politics in the first place?

In 1994, the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, which is now called the Mongolian People’s Party, had undergone serious reforms in its policies and activities, and young party members had established the Council of party supporters. Starting from that time,




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