World leaders thank Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The leaders of major states who participated in NATO Summit on Afghanistan issue talked to Mongolia's President Tsakhia Elbegdorj during the Summit's second day in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 20 and praised Mongolia's contributing to stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan and implementing an active work of the foreign policy.
As part of this summit, the head of the Mongolian state has exchanged views on multilateral cooperation issues with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the U.S. President Barack Obama, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, EU President Herman Van Rompey, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jonh Key, Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
During these talks, the world leaders expressed words of gratitude to Mongolia, which is sending its peacekeepers to Afghanistan to take active participation and cooperation in maintaining a security in the region and worldwide.
From 2003 to the present, Mongolia has sent some 700 of its troops to participate in the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. Currently, two units of the Armed forces of Mongolia are there fulfilling the mission of conservation and protection zones near Kabul, which is under the control of the U.S. troops. In addition, the Mongolian troops and the soldiers of Germany jointly have been carryinh out an operation in the Faisalbad city in southern Afghanistan. Apart of this, a team of artillery instructors have been working there since 2003 and are training a group of helicopter technicians.
S.Otgonbayar
As part of this summit, the head of the Mongolian state has exchanged views on multilateral cooperation issues with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the U.S. President Barack Obama, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, EU President Herman Van Rompey, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jonh Key, Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
During these talks, the world leaders expressed words of gratitude to Mongolia, which is sending its peacekeepers to Afghanistan to take active participation and cooperation in maintaining a security in the region and worldwide.
From 2003 to the present, Mongolia has sent some 700 of its troops to participate in the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. Currently, two units of the Armed forces of Mongolia are there fulfilling the mission of conservation and protection zones near Kabul, which is under the control of the U.S. troops. In addition, the Mongolian troops and the soldiers of Germany jointly have been carryinh out an operation in the Faisalbad city in southern Afghanistan. Apart of this, a team of artillery instructors have been working there since 2003 and are training a group of helicopter technicians.
S.Otgonbayar
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