INITIATIVE ON NORTHEAST ASIAN SECURITY BACKED

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ambassador of Mongolia to Turkey B.Batkhishig attended a regular meeting of the Special Working Group (SWG) and Senior Officials Committee (SOC) of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in Ankara on April 24 and 25. The meeting backed inclusion of a provision in support of the Mongolian President’s Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asian Security initiative into the Declaration which is expected to issue at CICA summit in Shanghai in May 2014. The document supports International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries in Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia’s nuclear-free status. Joined CICA in 2001, Mongolia is one of its founders.