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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The scope of foreign policy pursued by Mongolia in Northeast Asia has expanded considerably over the first decade of the new century. One explanation lies in the objectives the country sets itself and the opportunities it has to step up its involvement in the region's economic integration, and to provide transportation facilities for people and goods between Russia and China and other APR countries. Another is that deteriorating security in Northeast Asia has given Mongolia a chance to nominate its capital city, Ulan Bator, as a center for international talks, by analogy with Finland's capital, Helsinki, where the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, holds its sessions. This idea was tested, at the academic and practical level, at the International Conference that was held in Mongolia on April 19 to 21, 2009 under the motto, "Present and Future Security Environment in Northeast and Central Asia: Ulaanbaatar - New Helsinki?"
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