via Wash Times - EFL
An interesting and detailed story - decent backgrounder on Mongolia.
By David R. Sands - July 16, 2004
Mongolia considers the United States a "strategic partner" in the war on terrorism and will not pull out of the U.S.-led security operation in Iraq, Mongolian President Natsagiin Bagabandi said in an interview yesterday. The president said Mongolia's cliffhanger June 27 elections, which produced an almost evenly divided parliament, would not affect the country's deployment of about 130 troops to Iraq, the third rotation of Mongolian forces in the country since the war concluded last year. "So far in our country, there is no disagreement among the political parties over dispatching our forces to Iraq, and there is no disagreement on our strong relationship with the United States," Mr. Bagabandi said, speaking through an interpreter with editors and reporters of The Washington Times. President Bush noted Mongolia's contribution to the postwar Iraq mission in an Oval Office meeting with the Mongolian president yesterday afternoon.
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Impressive sensible statements by President Bagabandi - wish there were far more leaders with his attitude and grit. Thanx, Mongols! Now let's talk about China and what you could do with a thousand or so M1A2 Abrams and some air cover...
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