Foreign Minister addresses OSCE forum

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs L.Purevsuren on Tuesday made the opening remarks at this year’s first meeting of the Security Cooperation Forum of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In Vienna of Austria, the OSCE Forum on security cooperation is being chaired by Mongolia. In his remarks, Mr Purevsuren presented the priorities Mongolia is adhering to in its leadership, saying that the forum will consider issues of tackling the Ukraine crisis in a peaceful way, combating the international terrorism, and a non-proliferation of nuclear and mass destruction weapons. The forum’s actions will also include a celebration of the 70th anniversaries of the end of the Second World War II, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an establishment of the United Nations, and 40th anniversary of the approval of the Helsinki Final Act, a key document of the OSCE, he said. Noting that Mongolia wants to focus on the cooperation with its Asian partner countries, the Foreign Minister said Mongolia launched the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue initiative on the security in Northeast Asia, and hoped that the 40-year experience and lessons of the OSCE will contribute to these matters. At the meeting, the delegates congratulated Mongolia on chairing the OSCE Forum and said they will collaborate with Mongolia in it. The OSCE Security Cooperation Forum is a key unit of the OSCE for considering security issues through military and political directions. Mongolia will lead the Forum until April of this year.