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Khurelsukh Ukhnaa

lines on the record: 45
first: 2018-09-24
most recent: 2023-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
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“Today our leadership is playing a pivotal role in shaping the destiny and well-being of our nations. Humankind is counting on us to devise sagacious and visionary policies and initiatives that are in the best interest of future generations and that prioritize global peace, security and the environment. Let us act together for peace and solidarity in the world and for the well-being of the future generations. May the eternal blue sky bless humankind forever.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In this era of profound transformation in the international order and norms, the role and significance of multilateral cooperation and the international community are growing enormously. Mongolia therefore believes that it is important for States Members of the United Nations to actively participate in the intensification of United Nations reform, particularly in furthering negotiations on Security Council reform. I have confidence that the Summit of the Future, which will be convened in September 2024 under the theme “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow”, will be a decisive event in reaffirming the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, reviving multilateralism, fulfilling the commitments made, seeking solutions to global challenges and rebuilding trust among Member States.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Just as women’s roles and contributions are essential for both the harmony and prosperity of nations and the well-being of families, women and female leaders play a critical role in the security and development of humankind. Last June. Mongolia successfully organized the Female Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, at which the participants held constructive discussions on presenting solutions to the pressing issues facing humankind and the international community, including global peace and security, climate change and food security. The Ulaanbaatar Declaration was adopted as an outcome of the meeting. To further advance that achievement, we propose to convene the World Women’s Forum in Mongolia in 2024. We call upon countries to cooperate in support of that initiative.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“who played an important role in overcoming the tough times brought about by the global pandemic while minimizing the damage. We call upon Member States to support and cooperate comprehensively in strengthening WHO’s role and position while broadening its range of activities. This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a democratic country. Mongolia fully advocates for human rights, freedom and justice, and the principles of the promotion of gender equality and human rights in the political, social, cultural and economic spheres are enshrined in the Constitution of Mongolia. Building a world free of gender inequality is our shared goal, and it is our collective duty and responsibility to collaborate towards its realization.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“the negotiations on the adoption of a World Health Organization (WHO) convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, as agreed by WHO member States at the second special session of the World Health Assembly. We believe that the establishment of such an international legal document would be of great importance to ensuring timely and equitable access to and the distribution of pandemic-related vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. On behalf of the people of Mongolia. I wish to express my deep gratitude to all health-care workers around the world, who selflessly and tirelessly worked to save people’s lives and preserve their health. My gratitude also goes to WHO. its staff and its Director-General. Mr. Tedros A. Ghebreyesus.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is commendable that the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly drew global attention to health issues by convening three high-level meetings — on universal health coverage; pandemic preparedness, prevention and response; and the fight against tuberculosis — and adopting their respective political declarations. I am confident that the outcomes of those meetings will make a significant contribution to international efforts in those fields and that they will be reflected as well in the national programme on the theme “Healthy Mongolian”, which is being implemented at my own initiative. Mongolia fully supports, and expresses its commitment to contributing to.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Mongolia submitted a working paper on improving air connectivity in LLDCs. which received broad support from ICAO member States. Mongolia also attaches particular importance to developing the International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries, an intergovernmental organization established in Ulaanbaatar in 2017. and to strengthening its research capacities. We believe that, based on the practical experiences and lessons learned from the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action, the third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, to be held in Kigali in 2024. will be a critical opportunity to adopt a renewed development framework for landlocked developing countries for the next decade.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I am also pleased to inform the Assembly that preparations are under way in Mongolia to host the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, to be held in Ulaanbaatar in 2026. At the United Nations. Mongolia actively endeavours to protect the interests of landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) and to present both the challenges and opportunities of countries with special needs to the international community. Currently. Mongolia is working as Vice-Chair of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries at the United Nations and is making progress on the initiative to set up a group of LLDCs at the World Trade Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). At the forty-first session of the ICAO Assembly, held in Montreal. Canada, in September 2022.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Mongolia became one of the first countries in 2023 to adopt the SDG Finance Taxonomy by introducing major legislative reforms aimed at increasing foreign and domestic investment. Mongolia is effectively implementing the One Billion Trees and the Food Supply and Food Security initiatives at the national level, and successfully hosted the World Export Development Forum 2023. which focused on the further development of green, digital and inclusive trade and economic relations. Furthermore, in the Orkhon Valley, which has been inscribed on the World Heritage List, we commenced a major development project to rebuild Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongols, into an environmentally friendly, smart eco-city for green development.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The 2023 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that, if global temperature increases by half a degree, it will lead to increased poverty, heatwaves, sea level rise, coral reef decline, habitat loss and severe drought. Every increment of global warming will be immeasurably costly. Therefore. Governments should take urgent measures to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, heed the guidance of scientists, raise public awareness, regulate resource utilization, preserve and restore biological diversity, foster ecologically friendly and economically efficient technologies, such as the use of renewable energy, and substantially bolster climate financing. To that end.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Mongolia has made notable progress towards achieving 15 of the SDGs. while the implementation of one SDG has been assessed as regressive. It has been estimated that Mongolia needs to spend an additional 18 per cent of its gross domestic product annually on average until 2030 to achieve the SDG targets. Climate change is sending a distress call and a warning alarm of the impending threat that looms over human life and the existence of humankind on Earth. If we do not follow a resolute path to preserving our Mother Earth right now. she will inevitably find her own way to survive, even if it means doing so without us.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“If we are unable to achieve our goals, it is evident that the path forward for development and progress for humankind will be bleak. It is a critical time to be responsible and. as Secretary-General Guterres warned, not to turn the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into a mirage of what might have been. Prior to the pandemic, the annual SDG funding gap stood at $2.5 trillion, but according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, that gap has now surged to at least $4.2 trillion, while 52 least developed countries are at risk of a serious debt crisis. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a global plan for financing the SDGs. Mongolia presented its second national voluntary review report at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held in New York last July. According to the report.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The recent global challenges, such as the pandemic, climate change, geopolitical conflicts, financial and debt crises, poverty and hunger, have significantly hindered development, particularly in developing countries, in which progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is lagging. Even though we have already passed the halfway point to the deadline for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is the road map for fostering trust, unity and development. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023 reveals that only 12 per cent of the SDG targets are on track, while progress on 50 per cent of the targets is weak and insufficient and progress on 30 per cent of them has stalled or even reversed.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We also intend to implement national policies and activities on ensuring gender equality in line with the women and peace and security agenda. As nations, it is our collective aspiration to coexist harmoniously and equitably in this world, regardless of our ethnicity, race. age. gender, religion or cultural distinctions. However, the principle of leaving no one behind in development, which we formulated, has not been fully realized to date. Disparities still persist both in the levels of development among various countries and in the living conditions experienced by different groups of people.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Mongolia has honourably fulfilled its obligations to the international community in terms of maintaining global peace and security. Mongolia emphasizes the meaningful participation of women in United Nations peacekeeping operations and believes that strengthening the role of women at all levels will have significant impacts on the maintenance of international peace and security as well as on the peaceful resolution of conflicts. To contribute to the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). we successfully organized an international conference on strengthening the role of women in peacekeeping in June 2022. at which participants shared and exchanged their experiences and ideas on best practices and lessons learned, as well as the challenges and obstacles encountered in the field.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“on this Earth devastated by countless conflicts, there be a renewal, respectful of international laws, of the conditions of what was once the pax mongolica. namely, the absence of conflicts”. United Nations peacekeeping stands as one of the essential instruments for maintaining international peace and security. It continues to play a pivotal role in halting and preventing armed conflicts, alleviating humanitarian crises and fostering an environment that is conducive to the progress of social development. For that reason, we consider United Nations peacekeeping operations to be a vital part of the United Nations and multilateral cooperation efforts for peace. Over the past 20 years, through its deployment of more than 20.000 peacekeepers to hotspots around the world.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I am pleased to note that Mongolia’s efforts in the pursuit of regional peace and security in the framework of its peace-loving, open and multi-pillar foreign policy are expanding, and the number of participating countries is growing year by year. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised Mongolia as a symbol of peace in a troubled world when he visited Mongolia last year. I am also delighted to note that, during his recent visit to Mongolia. Pope Francis stated that. “a profound spiritual sensitivity belongs to the very fibre of your cultural identity, and it is proper that Mongolia should be a symbol of religious freedom”. Furthermore, the Pope issued the following call to the international community: “may ...”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It has been more than three decades since Mongolia declared its territory to be free of nuclear weapons, and we have fully supported the international community’s efforts to achieve disarmament and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. In order to contribute to peace and security in our region. Mongolia successfully hosted the eighth Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asian Security in June. The Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu. participated in the Conference and highlighted that the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue mechanism is becoming a significant platform for establishing peace and security and strengthening confidence-building measures in north-east Asia.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Therefore, in order to combat them effectively, it is vital for countries across the globe and the international community to collaborate in all areas, exchange information and refine the international legal framework. In that context. Mongolia fully supports the initiatives and activities of the United Nations and the United Nations system and has actively contributed to the establishment of a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes. Today’s tense and complex geopolitical dynamics undermine both global and regional security and provoke misunderstandings among nations. Consequently, the most effective means to address those complex issues is through peaceful dialogue.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Mongolia commends and supports the initiatives outlined in the report of the Secretary-General Our Common Agenda (A/75/982). including the recent New Agenda for Peace, which offers proactive solutions for global challenges in international relations by strengthening preventive diplomacy and reinvigorating multilateral cooperation and dialogue. The rapid advancement of digital technology is unlocking new prospects for global development. Yet on the other hand, it is also reshaping the landscape of threats that jeopardize world peace and security, such as terrorist attacks and their financing, money laundering and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Despite the world’s collective accomplishment in overcoming the threat of the global pandemic, we still face a range of challenges stemming from geostrategic and geopolitical tensions, socioeconomic crises, climate change and rapid technological advances. The United Nations. the Charter of the United Nations and the international legal system continue to play an important role in strengthening global peace and security and fostering international cooperation. To collectively overcome the current challenges, conflicts, confrontations and mistrust, the countries of the world should strive for greater unity, trust and friendship and should endeavour to further strengthen the role and position of the United Nations as a global community of human solidarity.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I wish to convey my heartfelt congratulations to the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session. Mr. Dennis Francis, and to wish him every success in the work of the session. I am confident that, under his able leadership, the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly will facilitate comprehensive discussions on a range of critical issues facing the world and will present constructive solutions for peace, prosperity and sustainability. Not only can we enjoy peace and harmony, but we can also entrust a peaceful and prosperous world to future generations by sincerely yearning for peace, security and sustainable development, as well as by devoting efforts and financial resources to consolidating the political, economic, environmental and sociocultural foundations that sustain the world.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In conclusion, I would like to call, from this United Nations rostrum, for unity among all nations in a spirit of mutual trust and awareness of our responsibilities for the sake not only of the current but also of future generations, as well as to strive for peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“I am confident that members will continue their cooperation and support for the activities of the Think Tank, as they have done in the past. In Mongolia, where extreme weather conditions prevail and the economy mostly relies on mining and agriculture, the scope, frequency and negative impact of disasters — such as earthquakes, desertification, soil erosion and forest fires — have increased in recent years. I would like to take this opportunity to inform the Assembly that, during United Nations Climate Week, my delegation will be screening a documentary entitled Blue Gold. We are sharing that documentary with members not only to show the devastating impact of climate change in Mongolia, but also to sound the alarm about similar consequences elsewhere and appeal for timely protective steps to be taken.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Global warming and climate change impact all nations, and they are felt more intensely in the context of the economic and social development of the least- developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States. In that regard, I would like to highlight that, through the initiative and leadership of Mongolia, the International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries has been established in Ulaanbaatar and became fully operational in May. The International Think Tank — the first- ever intergovernmental organization representing the 32 landlocked developing countries — will carry out policy research and implement feasible projects to address common challenges and protect the interests and positions of those countries with the purpose of augmenting their ability to benefit from international trade.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“We therefore need to take comprehensive measures to resolve issues pertaining to their health care, social insurance and dual citizenship, and improve the related legal environment. Climate change is yet another daunting challenge for humankind today, along with peace, security and development issues. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change has been ratified by 179 countries. However, the implementation rate is not living up to expectations, and the fulfilment of shared responsibilities by States Members remains insufficient. We therefore welcome and support the Secretary-General’s timely initiative to convene the United Nations 2019 Climate Summit for reviewing the Paris Agreement commitments.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“through dark winter streets, as the temperature dropped to between -20°C and -25°C on his way back home after the third shift of his school, which does not provide bus service. The Government of Mongolia is planning and implementing policies and programmes that aim, by 2030, to address effectively the challenges faced by living in the capital, including kindergarten shortages, the fact that approximately 30 suburban schools must operate in three shifts, the overloading of family hospitals and the adverse affects of air pollution on people’s health, as well as the issue of unemployed people in Ulaanbaatar, who account for one third of the nation’s unemployed. Furthermore, approximately 5 per cent of our total working-age population is working abroad, and that percentage is increasing.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The fact that the second-largest portion of the 2018 State budget has been allocated to the education sector demonstrates the Government’s firm commitment to prioritize human-resource development. However, access to schools and the quality of education has not always kept pace with demographic growth, rates of urbanization and modern education standards. While the pupil-to-classroom ratio in schools and kindergartens has decreased together with the population density in rural areas, the opposite is true in urban centres. It was troubling for me to hear at one of my public meetings in Ulaanbaatar last year that the 10-year-old child of a citizen had to walk home at 9 p.m.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“That phenomenon has not spared my country, which has a small population and is located in the highlands of North-East Asia. We are experiencing a high volume of internal and external migration for a number of reasons, including unemployment and poverty. Owing to a large number of citizens who have been moving from the countryside to cities since the 1990s, as of 2017 45 per cent of our total population lives in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, with a net annual growth of 22.3 per cent. The social ramifications include poverty, unemployment, poor access to health-care services and a high level of air pollution in the capital city as compared with other areas. The citizens of Mongolia are highly educated.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“It has been an honour for us to contribute to global endeavours to protect and promote human rights. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized. Following the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, Member States have continued working constructively on the issue of migration. We expect that the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration will be adopted in Marrakesh, Morocco, in December on the historic day marking the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and will serve as a valuable document in terms of ensuring the protection of the rights of all migrants. The world has witnessed the highest level of population displacement ever over the past two decades.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“In order to resolve issues comprehensively, the national programme on reducing poverty and unemployment will be launched shortly. This year we are celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — a milestone document in the history of human rights. In accordance with the ideals enshrined in the Declaration, Mongolia has made remarkable progress in the area of the promotion and protection of human rights. In recent years particular importance has been attached to the issues of enhancing gender equality, protecting the rights of children, the elderly and persons with disabilities, combating human trafficking and drugs, and ensuring freedom of speech and expression. For the period from 2016 to 2018, Mongolia has been serving as a member of the Human Rights Council for the first time.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“However, Mongolian economic growth, which is highly dependent on mining and vulnerable to commodity prices, tends to be unstable and risky in terms of ensuring the allocation of financial resources for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in years of commodity-price decline. Moreover, another challenge faced by my Government involves ensuring that every citizen benefits from economic growth. For instance, following the recent economic growth, unemployment, but not poverty, decreased modestly. We are therefore introducing measures aimed at reducing income disparities and poverty into all relevant Government programmes and sectoral plans, while compiling a comprehensive database of low-income households and supporting public-private partnerships.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“In accordance with its Vision, by 2030 Mongolia aspires to consolidate its democratic governance, preserve ecological balance, eradicate poverty in all its forms and rank among the upper-middle-income countries. My Government has been taking important steps to ensure coherence between the SDGs and the national development policies that have been implemented previously and translate them into short- and medium- term plans and programmes. In order to provide financing for development, an investment programme has been adopted in line with the Government action plan. Moreover, SDG indicators were developed based on multi-stakeholder consultations and will be adopted shortly. Mongolia has witnessed an economic resurgence with accelerated foreign-trade turnover, increased investment and a budget surplus over the past two years.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“We perceive a pressing need today for effective dialogue mechanisms, such as the ABCP, which enjoys consultative status in the Economic and Social Council. We are therefore determined to revitalize its activities at the regional and international levels. In that regard, as a regional hub connecting North-East and Central Asian countries, we are announcing, from this rostrum, our initiative to host the Conference on Religious Freedom in Mongolia in March 2019. We are confident that our initiative will contribute constructively to new developments in the culture of peace and religious tolerance and freedom worldwide. Mongolia was one of the early adopters of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the national level, with the adoption of its own Sustainable Development Vision 2030 in February 2016.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The great Mongolian Empire, established 812 years ago, was governed by a written and codified law, and it was a genuine home of religious freedom, where Christians, Muslims, Confucians and Buddhists were treated equally and lived together without any ideological struggle. In brief, the legacy of religious tolerance and respect in the Mongolian Empire, which covered an immense swathe of territory, is very instructive for today’s world. More recently, during the era of the Cold War in the twentieth century, we carried out specific activities aimed at bringing together the voices of international Buddhists to support world peace through the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABCP), which was established in 1969 and has achieved tangible results in combating ideological divisions.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Mongolians believe that neighbours share the same disposition and interests. As Mongolia is determined to develop strategic partnerships with its two big neighbours, it closely follows their initiatives at the regional level and strives to engage with them in every possible way. We recently proposed initiatives to facilitate travel for nationals of countries along the Belt and Road corridor and proposed the Peace, Prosperity, Progress, Promise Award for junior diplomats and scholars from Belt and Road countries. Undoubtedly, many of the armed conflicts, rivalries, insurgencies and terrorist attacks that trouble us today have been caused by the clash of civilizations and religions. Mongolia is one of the few nations that has had no religious or ethnic wars in its history.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Discussion topics cover a broad range of issues, including security, energy, infrastructure, green development and opportunities for humanitarian cooperation, among others. Asia is one of the most disaster-prone regions of the world. We actively support regional cooperation for enhancing disaster resilience, reducing disaster risk and increasing the effectiveness of disaster-prevention activities. Within that framework, we have proposed an initiative to establish the Northeast Asia Disaster Risk Reduction Platform in Mongolia. The proposal was discussed at the conferences of the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asian Security and the second Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, successfully hosted in Ulaanbaatar in July, which received warm support from the countries of the region with regard to its implementation.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Mongolia has been closely following and has welcomed recent positive developments on the Korean peninsula, including the inter-Korean and other bilateral summits, which have provided an important impetus to confidence-building and ensuring peace and security in North-East Asia. However, we are not merely observing the process, but are also trying to contribute to it. Since the 1980s, we have been consistently pursuing the policy of launching a dialogue mechanism in North-East Asia. Those efforts yielded the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asian Security — an international conference that has been held annually since 2014. The Dialogue is currently developing into an open and inclusive mechanism that brings together both Government officials and representatives from academia from all of the countries in the subregion.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Today we are proud of our troops, who have been praised by the international community for their robust, calm and appropriate approach to peacekeeping. As one of the major 30 troop-contributing countries, as well as one of the leaders in terms of troop deployment per capita, Mongolia envisages increasing its participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations and fully supports the Secretary-General’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative. Addressing security issues in North-East Asia is one of our foreign-policy priorities, as it has a direct impact on our security and development.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“On one such occasion, we brought hundreds of orphans from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to Mongolia following the Korean War and subsequently raised them. During past decades, we have stretched out our hands to the extent possible to a number of countries that have faced natural disasters and terrorist acts, while rendering development assistance to countries of the region and sharing our modest experience with democratic transition. This year we are celebrating the seventieth anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping, which has contributed immensely to world peace and security. Mongolia first joined United Nations peacekeeping in 2002, with the deployment of unarmed military observers, and began deploying troops in 2006.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“With regard to Mongolia’s initiatives aimed at demonstrating its contributions to peace and security at the global and regional levels, I need mention only the resolutions on Disarmament Week, which has been observed from 24 to 30 October every year since 1978; the Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace, adopted in 1984; and my country’s declaration as a nuclear-weapon-free State in 1992, the status of which we continue to guarantee. Mongolians have a saying that, “It is better to give a needle in time of need rather than to give a camel when wealthy” — or, as it is said in English, “A friend in need is a friend indeed”. Mongolians always try to assist other nations and people when they are in need or seek peace and stability.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“The use of technological advancements in armed conflicts is making the world situation more dangerous than ever. Mongolia has always held the principled position that conflicts should be resolved peacefully and through dialogue. Based on our peaceful philosophy, originating in our national mentality and religious beliefs, we have always supported peace and security initiatives proposed at the General Assembly and other forums, and have striven to be a responsible member of the Organization.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“We support his reform initiatives in the peace and security architecture, which are aimed at ensuring stronger prevention and mediation activities and making peacekeeping operations more cost-effective, as well as his initiatives aimed at repositioning the United Nations development system, which aspire to reform the United Nations so as to create a more effective, well-coordinated, transparent and accountable organization. According to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, world military expenditures are estimated to have reached $1.7 trillion in 2017. That is not only an increase over the previous year, but also the highest level of such expenditures since the end of the Cold War. The arms race shows no sign of abating, and the situations in some regions are unstable owing to deteriorating conflicts.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“Over the past 73 years, the United Nations has reached out to and assisted every Member State as part of its diligent activities to promote peace, justice and global understanding. Accordingly, under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is timely for the United Nations to endeavour, in line with its founding principles, to reach every individual in Member States. Mongolia appreciates the leadership that Secretary- General António Guterres has shown through his reform initiatives in reinforcing the joint efforts of Member States to leave no one behind.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)
“At the outset, I wish to express my heartfelt congratulations to Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés on being elected President of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session. I pledge my delegation’s full support and cooperation in the discharge of her heavy responsibilities. Today we are living in a flat, globalized and interrelated world. Our life is digitalized to a great extent, and our way of life is greatly shaped by technological progress. In spite of such developments, we encounter a plethora of global flashpoints, including conflicts, poverty, hunger and inequality. I am therefore glad to represent my Government in this general debate, which will deliberate issues relating to making the United Nations more relevant to all people and making the world more peaceful, equitable and sustainable.”
2018-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 73 (2018)