The readout, on the ministry’s Mongolia page, calls the trip an official working visit and Uchral’s first bilateral visit since taking office, and lists what the two discussed under the Special Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity: cooperation in security and artificial intelligence, the 2022 joint statement, which Uchral said Mongolia would implement, and Japan’s continued support for Mongolia’s autonomy under its updated Indo-Pacific policy.
For the 55th anniversary of relations next year the two agreed a government and business joint committee in November 2026, the start of negotiations on a tax convention, preliminary consultations on a social-security agreement, the opening of a JETRO office and the first long-term dispatch of NIHONGO Partners, Japanese-language teaching assistants.
On the international side Takaichi reiterated Japan’s appreciation of Mongolia’s stance on the abductions issue and endorsed its candidacy for the UN Security Council in 2047, and the two committed to closer cooperation at the United Nations.
The exchange of notes is the government-level instrument behind the ¥158.3 billion loan whose agreement finance minister Z. Mendsaikhan signed with JICA’s president Tanaka Akihiko on the same day, at 1.1% over 40 years with 10 years’ grace, to take the airport from 1.6 million to 5.2 million passengers a year. The readout adds cooperation on oil reserves and renewable energy under POWERR Asia and prints no other sum.
On the international side Takaichi reiterated Japan’s appreciation of Mongolia’s stance on the abductions issue and endorsed its candidacy for the UN Security Council in 2047, and the two committed to closer cooperation at the United Nations. The Mongolian side’s readout, with the place of the talks and a list of documents, was not on Ikon’s front by 20:10 Ulaanbaatar time.