Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations

Since its fully-fledged membership on October 27 1961, Mongolia has been an active member of the UN participating and contributing to its activities and purposes. With the UN membership Mongolia ensured its independence and sovereignty, safeguarded its security and strengthened its position in the international community. The UN supported efforts of Mongolia in its socio-economic development, environment protection, democracy promotion and human rights. In this way Mongolia benefited significantly from its UN membership and multilateral cooperation. Mongolia participated and committed itself to the implementation of the decisions from the UN major conferences and summits, which took since 2000, on children, financing for development and transit cooperation of landlocked developing countries. Mongolia initiated more than 70 resolutions in the General Assembly, of which 10 were adopted in the past five years. General Assembly resolutions on “UN Literacy Decade (2003-2012),” “Support by the UN system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new and restored democracies,” “Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas,” “Cooperatives in social development” request UN and its system organizations as well as Member States to take concrete steps towards resolving issues raised in the above resolutions. Mongolia is active in the following concrete areas: Mongolia’s international security, UN peacekeeping operations, socio-economic development, addressing special needs of landlocked developing countries.