Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Mongolia Office

Security-Conference

Policies of a country surrounded by super-powers: The Third-Neighbor Policy of Mongolia

On September 29th and 30th, the KAS had organized a Security-Conference in cooperation with the Mongolian Institute for Strategic Studies. The focus was on the current and further orientation of Mongolia´s foreign and security policy, especially concerning the Third-Neighbor-Policy. The German security expert and chairman of Politisch-Militärische Gesellschaft e.V. R. Thiele spoke about the role of the European Union as a Third Neighbor of Mongolia as well as the topic “Interlinked Security”.

Signing of Memorandum

Mongolian Minister, the director of the Cabinet Secretariat, Ch.Hurelbaatar and resident representative of Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Johannes D. Rey, have signed a memorandum to extend the cooperation agreement of year 2007. As specified in the memorandum, the two parties will cooperate in improving independence of the provinces, decentralizing, and improving the education and knowledge of the employees in the local government.

New books presented to the Constitutional Court

Konrad-Adenauer Foundation’s resident representative Johannes D. Rey handed over 112 books purchased in Germany, Russia, and Mongolia to N. Jantsan, the Deputy Director of the Mongolian State Constitutional Court, on December 29th. These books comprised of standard legal professional books dedicated to enrich the Constitutional Court Library book fund and are related to Mongolian history, politics and economy. The library books are open for use by scholars, researchers and students.