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STATEMENT BY H.E. ENKHSAIKHAN JARGALSAIKHAN
AMBASSADOR OF MONGOLIA TO THE OSCE

19 July 2010                                                                                                                                Vienna, Austria

3. Presentation on the outcome of the 2010 OSCE-Republic of Korea Conference

Mr. Chairman,

May I join the previous speakers in thanking the Korean Government and OSCE for successfully organizing an important Asian partners’ conference to share knowledge and experience between the OSCE participating states and the Asian partners to address the common challenges. I would like to also thank the organizers for the invitation extended to my Government to take part in this conference and specifically contribute to the session devoted to “Women’s contribution to security”. Based on the feed back from Ulaanbaatar I would say that the structure of the conference allowed participants to focus on the three main aspects of security: political, economic and the human dimensions of security. We believe that discussion of all these spects had contributed to a keener understanding of the OSCE’s approach, in particular of the importance of the human dimension commitments. We hope that the outcome of the conference would serve to further enhance and broaden the ongoing dialogue of Asian partners with the OSCE and its participating states.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our Thai colleagues once again for graciously agreeing to our request to host the Asian Partners conference in 2011. The concrete date and topics of the conference will be discussed with all of you in the second half of this year. In this regard, we would welcome to receive any suggestions and recommendations regarding issues to be discussed at that conference.

Other issues

Mr. Chairman,

Looking to the future I would like to inform the PC that in 2011-13 Mongolia would be chairing the Community of Democracies, taking over from Lithuania, the next Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE. Based on the wide decade-long experience of members of the CoD, its convening group, including Poland and Lithuania, Mongolia is looking forward to working with the interested members of OSCE to promote political, civil, economic and social rights, share or exchange experience in good governance, supporting and strengthening the civil society, etc.

As Asian partner of the OSCE, Mongolia is prepared to contribute to the common efforts to assist Afghanistan. Being a developing country, Mongolia has limited resource to materially assist Afghanistan. On the other hand it would be ready to provide such assistance, upon agreement, to organize training courses for Afghan diplomats since Mongolia, la land-locked developing country, has accumulated experience in dealing the political, economic and other challenges that Afghanistan is facing that need to be addressed together with its immediate and regional neighbours as well as other stakeholders. Therefore Mongolia would be prepared to talk about this with Afghanistan and interested OSCE participating states and partners.

Thank you.