Mongolia’s experience with China in negotiation borders agreements
Mongolia is a developing country in Asia, landlocked between two great powers. It is very important for our foreign policy to establish and develop good-neighborly and friendly relations with its neighbors. Concept of Mongolia’s foreign policy says “Maintaining friendly relations with the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation shall be a priority direction of Mongolia’s foreign policy activity.
It shall not adopt the line of either country but shall maintain in principle a balanced relationship with both of them and shall promote all round good neighborly cooperation. In doing so, the traditional relations as well as the specific nature of our economic cooperation with these two countries will be taken into account”.
Mongolia is the country, which has the longest boundary line with China and Russia. Mongolia has successfully negotiated boundary talks with her great neighbors to the north and south. Mongolia and China share a boundary line of 4672 kilometers. It had been formally delimited. Mongolia has successively solved the boundary questions left over from the past with China. Mongolia has concluded several important treaties and agreements concerning the border with China. These are as follows:
1. Boundary treaty between the People’s Republic of Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China ( 26 December 1962 )
2. Protocol of the boundary line between the People’s Republic of Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China ( 30 June 1964)
3. Protocol of the First Joint Inspection on the boundary line between the People’s Republic of Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China ( 31 July 1984 )
4. Agreement on the protection and utilization of the border water between Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China (29 April 1994 )
5. Agreement on the triangle border juncture of boundary line among Mongolia, Russia and China ( 27 January, 1994 ).
6. Agreement on border crossing point and its regulations between the People’s Republic of Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China ( 05 July 2004)
7. Protocol of the Second Joint Inspection on the boundary line between the People’s Republic of Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China ( 28 November 2005 )
8. Agreement on border regulations and rules between the People’s Republic of Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China ( 01 June 2010)
In Mongolia’s view, all the problems remained from the past history between itself and its neighbours can be settled only through peaceful consultation, mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit and in the spirit of mutual understanding and mutual accommodation to the benefit of the two peoples. Based on these principles, Mongolia has successfully solved the boundary questions left over from the past with its neighbours.
From the report of Ayurzanа at the conference