1. Mongolia as an Active Player at the United
Nations
During the 40 year of its membership,
Mongolia has transformed itself from a passive to an active player in the
various United Nations organs. It has sponsored over 50 resolutions on social
and economic issues adopted by the United Nations and its various
organizations. It has also co- sponsored about 500 resolutions. It has paid
special attention to issues such as peace and disarmament, the right of peoples
to peaceful co- existence, the principles of international negotiation,
far-reaching social and economic reforms, universal literacy, the public sector
and cooperatives, national personnel and rural women, land-locked countries
etc. it is at the initiative of Mongolia that the international community observes
Disarmament Week from 24 to 30 October every year. This important initiative
has proved to the international public that Mongolia is an ardent promoter of
peace and disarmament. In 1984 the United adopted, at the initiative of
Mongolia, the “Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace”, which was well
received by the international community at that period of the cold war.
Mongolia’s active participation and significant role in the United Nations is
widely recognized by other member States. Its representatives have been
unanimously elected to important posts in the UN General Assembly such as
Vice-President (on 6 occasions), Chairman of the First Committee (Disarmament
and International Security), the Fourth Committee (Special Political and
Decolonization), the Sixth Committee (Legal), and the Commission on
Disarmament, as well as Vice-Chairman and Rapporteur of several
comities. Mongolia was also elected
Chairperson of the annual session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for
Asia and the Pacific in 1989 and 1999 respectively. Mongolia was a member of
the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) IN 1973-1976, and he Commission on
Sustainable Development (2001-2003). Since 1999, the country has started to
prepare for its participation in the peacekeeping operations of the Unit
Nations, having signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Organization.
Mongolia’s military and humanitarian personnel are now trained to take part in
field operations. Mongolia has been active in the work of UN global conferences
such as the World Summit for Children (New York, 1990) the UN conference on
Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), the World Conference on
Human Rights (Vienna, 1993), the international Conference on Population and
Development (Cairo, 1994) the World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen,
1995), the World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995), and the World Food Summit
(Rome, 1996). Mongolia took the lead in organizing the “One World” conference
series, as a follow-up to these Un Global conferences. The United Nations
Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, has initiated an extensive and far –
reaching set of reforms intended to achieve greater unity of purpose, coherence
of effort and flexibility of response within the United Nations system. The
reform is designed to be a continuing process rather than a single event. It is
intended to foster a new United Nations for the new century. A key rallying
point for implementing the Secretary-General’s desire for cohesive programming
is the follow-up to summits and conferences sponsored by the United Nations. To
this end, Mongolia has launched a series of national youth conferences on these
international forums. These youth assemblies, known as the “One World” United
Nations Conference Series, were intended to empower Mongolia’s youth, its
citizens and Ultimately its leaders to take action on issues of global
importance in the development of their own community. The series did this by
revisiting five key world conference of the 1990s. The participation of the
president of Mongolia in the nations Millennium Summit in 2000 was another
strong indication of Mongolia’s commitment to the ideals of the United Nations.
As its President observed, Mongolia viewed this unprecedented gathering of
world leaders “as an event of historic importance that offers us a unique
opportunity to reaffirm our faith in the United Nations…” Mongolia’s Vision of
the United Nations in the 21st Century Mongolia sees the United
Nations as a powerful partner in its development and progress. It respects the
Organization as “the indispensable common house of the entire human family,
through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace,
cooperation and development.” It will continue actively promoting the United
Nations, especially its reform measures. For a small. For a small State like
Mongolia, the United Nations is of special value in terms of safeguarding its
interests, lending it voice on global issues and promoting its development.
Mongolia is therefore strongly in favor of further enhancing role and
credibility of the UN and democratizing its work. Mongolia holds the view that
“if the United Nations is to adequately respond to the challenges of today’s
increasingly inter dependent and rapidly changing world, a great deal will
depend units ability to adapt itself to an environment that is markedly
different from one in which it was conceived by its founder…” Our vision of the
future of the Organization has been elaborated in the Memorandum of the
Government of Mongolia on enhancing role of the United Nations in promoting the
security interests of small States, which was circulated at the United Nation
in 2000 as document. A/55/310. We expect that the reformed and reinvigorated
Organization can help Mongolia more in its endeavor to benefit equally from the
globalization process. The Government of Mongolia is of the view that
development and progress will never be achieved unless we deal with the huge
aftermath of the social crisis which has come about in the process of
transition to a market economy. With this in mind, we will continue actively
cooperating with the United Nations to find optimal solutions to issues such as
the drastic reduction of poverty and the improvement of healthcare , education
and living standards. Mongolia is grateful to the United Nations for its
assistance in relief efforts during the natural disaster, which have afflicted
the country as a result of global climate change. It will actively cooperate
with the United Nations in strengthening mechanisms and institutional capacity
for disaster preparedness and effective mitigation. Information technology is a
power full means of facilitating a dynamic response to every problem of a
socio-economic nature, including the participation of individuals at every
level in governance, the enhancement of their knowledge, closing gaps between
urban and rural development and improving people’s business and earning skill,
as well as effective monetary policies. We will therefore pay maximum attention
to this sector as the engine of development in the 21st century.
Mongolia hopes that the United Nations will continue assisting us in the
establishment of an information and communications network tailored to Mongolia’s
particular needs, reflected in a large land area with a sparse population. Mongolia
has developed a national policy for regional development. Through its technical
assistance, the United Nations could make a major contribution to building up
the regional economic development strategy, and in creating an enabling legal
environment and strengthening development capacity at the local level their is
no doubt that the United Nations will extend effective cooperation as in the
past towards the achievement of our goal of nurturing a civil society that
secures equality, active participation and freedom for everyone in this
country. Democracy, the promotion of human rights , and transparent accountable
governments are indispensable elements of security and development. He
international Conference on Human Security, organized by the Government of Mongolia in cooperation with the UNDP in May
2000 in Ulaanbaatar, highlighted the role of an informed and mature civil
society in the country as the central building block for human and national
security, emphasizing that empowered and pro-active citizens have the capacity
and capability to reinforce their own well-being and individual security, and
accordingly their national security. The “Good Governance for Human Security” Program,
initiated by the Government Mongolia and supported by UNDP, was launched in the
early 2001 with a view to achieving person-centered development in each and of
its aspects. Mongolia will step up its cooperation with the United Nations in
this area.
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