Developing All-round Collaboration with Asian Countries

By D.Zagdjav,

President of Peace and Friendship Organization of Mongolia

Dear honorary delegates,Dear ladies and gentleman!

I want to thank the CPAPD for organizing this Peace Conference to strengthen Eastern Asian and other countries collaboration and confidence.

On top of my appreciation I’d like to express my hopes for the successful outcome of this conference on behalf of the PFOM,the affiliated international friendship associations and also the thousands of delegates and supporters.

I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to the host for accepting our proposal to include the Russian Federation in the future and happy that the Russian Federation is giving consideration to take part in said activities.

I’m pleased to say that this conference will play an important role in discussing and solving problems such as securing not only Asian but world peace and security,strengthening all-round cooperation and mutual trust,conserving our environment,fighting against the armaments race and terrorism,respecting independent states and their territories,and ensuring liberty for all of the human race.

Developing all-round collaboration with Asian countries and taking part in regional integration is our main goal in Mongolian foreign policy.Mongolia always tries to contribute in the effort to solve Asian and global problems,provides security for not just Central Asian territories but other countries,expands the development of the global economy and other departmental collaborations.

I want to stipulate that we are assembling during a time when the United States and western countries,under UN protection,continually break their promises to the free world by breaking their agreement to not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.By doing this they are fuelling terrorism with military force and weaponry while stripping the countries of their natural resources,despite the fact that the civilian population continues to suffer.

We should be pushing for a UN General Assembly conference to further debate this matter with discussions.To ensure that we achieve our mission,agreements discussed at this General Assembly should be strictly adhered to.

For this we need to take the following steps.Firstly;expand Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s economic collaboration;create a currency we can use amongst each other,furthermore develop it into an international monetary network.

Secondly:Russia,China,India,member countries should form a military allegiance whereby forces can share strategic theories and training methods.Our combined forces can be mobilized effectively where military assistance is needed with the formation of a functional strategy.

There is a famous saying in Mongolia that quotes,“A ruse should be answered with a ruse”.

The Mongolian Head of State has participated six times in the SCO to strengthen relationships with the SCO member organizations,observers and participating countries.

Mongolian president Ts.Elbegdorj participated in the 14th Conference of the SCO Summit held in the capital city of Dushanbe in Republic of Tajikistan.It was a first time meeting between the neighbouring country leaders RF president V.V.Putin and PRC president Xi Jinping and the Mongolian president.The main goal of this meeting was firstly,to agree to meet every 3 years in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia calling it the“Ulaanbaatar Meeting”.Mongolia considers itself the closest and most reliable infrastructural connection from Asia to Europe on the Russian side,and from Europe to Asia on the Chinese side.Due to this awareness Mongolia considers it highly important for these 3 countries to meet as frequently as possible.Secondly,that were quest for Mongolia to be an APEC member be supported during the Beijing APEC conference.

Last month,during an official visit to Mongolia,the PRC head of state Xi Jinping said,“I hope China and Mongolia will become close neighbors and friends with mutual trust.We will uphold the guidelines of amity,sincerity,mutual benefit and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy.”He added that China would support Mongolia to join the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.

Mongolia,a country bordered with 2 nations with nuclear weapons,has for 20 years declared itself a“nuclear-weapon free zone”and is working towards that objective so it remains true.Since September 2012 five countries with nuclear weapons have not only accepted and respected this status,but assured not to violate those terms.This proves that our nation can contribute to creating a nuclear-weapon free World.

This June in Ulaanbaatar many scholars and researchers participated in a conference held to expand Northeast Asian and regional countries’bilateral and multilateral cooperation,to promote“Ulaanbaatar Dialogue”on the issue of Northeast Asian security.The“Ulaanbaatar Dialogue”gravitates toward our contribution to provide regional security,a steady progress and to support parties concerned to have more participation.

Mongolia is a very uniquely located country.Mongolia is the only country in the world that is solely situated between RF and PRC,which is why our chief foreign policy objective is to have friendly relations with both of our neighbors.Mongolia’s foreign policy also includes having not only friendly relations but a mutually beneficial relationship with other countries of the world and to contribute on our part in matters of international crisis.

The civilian wars happening in Syria,Ukraine is quickly becoming a major global crisis in international relations.Mongolia believes that this issue should be solved diplomatically and harmoniously through political negotiations.

I’d like to thank the Russian Federation for consistently holding the position of peace keeping and the Russian president for boldly standing against the possible outcome of this matter-war.

I would also like to note that with the Mongolian economy growing gradually our multilateral and mutually beneficial relationship with Asia-Pacific regional countries can be further developed in the mining,energy,and infrastructure industries.

Mongolia would like to again state that we will continue to work closely with the countries involved in this peace conference for the improvement of peace in Asia,progress and growth in all countries,and finally for the well being of the human race.

Thank you