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Over 1,100 volunteers have assisted in the organizing of the 11th ASEM Summit and its side events, held in Ulaanbaatar between March and July of 2016. Among them were 545 volunteers who can speak English, 113 - Russian, 36 - Chinese, 26 - German, 64 - Korean, 52 - Japanese, 17 Turkish and 11 volunteers, speaking other languages including French, Hungarian, Polish, Italian and Spanish.
The organizing group chose 1,100 volunteers out of the total 1,500 applicants.
Volunteers have been divided in groups of ten and fifty, each of which has a leader picked from themselves. This kind of organizing system was used in the Chinggis Khaan's Army back in the 13th century.
Volunteers were young people aged from 16 to 35, including students studying in Mongolia and in foreign countries, some of whom arrived in their homeland just to volunteer in the ASEM Summit.
The 2016 ASEM events, chaired by Mongolia, are the events which included the largest number of volunteers in history of Mongolia, and are the first-ever ASEM actions to utilize volunteers' capacity in the organizing.
A team of excellently trained Mongolian volunteers have been established thanks to the hosting of ASEM, and the team intends to increase frequency of volunteering activities in the country, informs the organizing group of ASEM at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia.

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