PRESIDENT OPENS ‘KHAAN QUEST’ MULTINATIONAL EXERCISE

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ President Kh.Battulga on Sunday attended the opening ceremony of ‘Khaan Quest’ international peacekeeping exercise. The annual multinational peacekeeping exercise opened this year on July 23, Sunday at Five Hills Training Area, engaging over 1100 peacekeeping troops from 26 countries. The opening ceremony was attended by President and Commander-in-Chief of Mongolian Armed Forces Kh.Battulga, Minister of Defense B.Bat-Erdene, Head of the Staff of Presidential Office Z.Enkhbold, Chief of the General Staff of Mongolian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General D.Davaa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mongolia Jennifer Zimdahl Galt, US Army Pacific Deputy Commanding General-North, Major General Roger Noble, representatives of diplomatic missions and military personnel. In his opening address, the President affirmed Mongolia’s readiness to continue supporting global and regional peace and security. The 2017 ‘Khaan Quest’ exercise comprises command and staff courses on brigade and battalion levels and tactical field exercises on platoon and company levels. The ‘Khaan Quest’ exercise was co-initiated in 2003 by the Mongolian Armed Forces and the US Pacific Command as a bilateral military exercise, and was later expanded to a multinational peacekeeping exercise in 2006. The exercise has engaged over 11 thousand soldiers from 51 countries of five continents over the past years. Kh.Aminaa