Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang met visiting Mongolian Defense Minister Luvsanvandan Bold here on Wednesday, calling for joint efforts to boost the China-Mongolia good-neighborly partnership of mutual trust.

Calling the two countries friendly neighbors with broad common interests, Li said the two sides had maintained a sound momentum for development and conducted fruitful cooperation over the years.

China highly values its relations with Mongolia, and would like to take the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of bilateral ties to deepen political, economic, cultural and security cooperation with the country, the vice premier said.

Bold told Li that to develop relations with China is a priority of his country's foreign policy, vowing joint efforts with China to further enhance bilateral ties.

(Xinhua News Agency September 23, 2009)