Ulaanbaatar
3rd int’l conference begins on UB Dialogue on Security in Northeast Asia
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 3rd international conference on Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Security in Northeast Asia was launched in Ulaanbaatar by the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute of Strategy Studies at the National Security Council (NSC).
The two-day conference brought together some 150 people including scholars and researchers from Russia, China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, India, USA, Germany, Great Britain, France and Australia, the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Mongolian nongovernment organizations and private institutions. They are addressing issues on the present state of Northeast Asian security, challenges, approaches to building the mutual understanding and trust in regional countries and promoting the economic cooperation in Northeast Asia, and sharing experiences in environmental protection in the region and disaster management.
Topics regarding the regional security, present economic situation, tendency and environmental sector, is covered in reports by Choi Kan Il, the section head of the Institute of American Studies at the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Lee San Hyong, deputy director of the Sejong Institute of South Korea; Jenny Town, the Assistant Director of the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Elena Boekova, a chief researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences; and other scholars.
