Minister L.Bold meets ambassadors of P5

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia L.Bold received Ambassadors and Chargé d'Affaires of the United States of America, the People's Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Russian Federation, permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Minister L.Bold thanked the five nuclear-weapon states for issuing Joint Declaration on Mongolia’s Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status in September 2012 welcoming the declaration by Mongolia in 1992 of its nuclear-weapon-free status and affirming their intent, as long as Mongolia maintains its nuclear-weapon-free status, to respect that status and not to contribute to any act that would violate it.

The regular session of UN General Assembly has scheduled this fall the discussion of a report by the UN Secretary General on the Mongolia’s international security and nuclear-weapon-free status and adoption of a resolution thereon. Informing that Mongolia is greatly interested in including in the resolution a provision officially recognizing the Mongolia’s specific status and in cultivating closer cooperation with the five nuclear-weapon states in this regard, Minister L.Bold handed over a memorandum thereon to the Ambassadors.

Though the five nuclear-weapon states recognized the Mongolia’s nuclear-weapon-free status, they have not backed reflecting a certain provision recognizing the Mongolia’s status in considering that it might be used by other states as precedent.

At the meeting the parties exchanged views on international and regional issues of mutual concern.