On the upcoming visit of the President Vladimir Putin to Mongolia (September 3, 2024)
On September 3, Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to Mongolia, at the invitation of President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, to attend celebrations of the 85th anniversary of the joint victory of the Soviet and Mongolian armed forces over the Japanese militarists on the Khalkhin Gol River.
During their talks, the two leaders will discuss prospects for further developing Russian-Mongolian relations of comprehensive strategic partnership and will exchange views on current international and regional issues.
A number of bilateral documents are planned to be signed.
Vladimir Putin is also expected to hold talks with Speaker of the State
Great Khural (parliament) D.Amarbayasgalan and Mongolia’s Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene.
Ahead of his visit to Mongolia, Vladimir Putin gave a written interview to the Mongolian Onoodor Newspaper.
Key points:
· The development of comprehensive and mutually beneficial partnership with Mongolia, our close neighbour and old friend, has always been and remains among the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy in Eurasia.
· Our states and peoples are linked by decades of fruitful cooperation in nearly all areas. Today, Russia and Mongolia further develop the invaluable traditions of friendship, good neighbourliness and mutual assistance. Our bilateral partnership in all key areas is progressing at a good pace.
· With Russia's involvement, significant progress has been made in drafting a temporary free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and Mongolia, which makes it possible to increase the supply of goods from the Mongolian traditional export list to the markets of Eurasian Economic Union member states.
· Almost all Western countries are banning Russian television channels and directly censoring our media and online resources. This runs counter to the democratic principles of freedom of speech and free flow of information. The West, which claims to be a model of freedom, has opted to hide from inconvenient facts and the truth by launching a blatant bullying campaign against Russian journalists and indiscriminately labelling them as ‘Kremlin propagandists.’
· The current leaders of the International Olympic Committee, acting at the behest of the collective West – primarily the United States – are flagrantly flouting the Olympic ideals they should be defending. Instead of promoting the rights of athletes, the integrity and universality of the Olympic movement, they are clinging to their social position, power and personal prosperity.
Our athletes are excluded from the competitions, our national symbols are banned. All of this blatantly violates the fundamental principles of the Olympic Charter, which states that sport, which should bring people together, and not divide them, should not be politicised.
· The main reason for today’s tragic situation in Ukraine is the deliberate anti-Russia policy pursued by the US-led collective West. For decades, they have sought total control over Ukraine. They funded nationalist and anti-Russia organisations there; they persistently worked to convince Ukraine that Russia was its eternal enemy and the main threat to its existence. Ukraine virtually turned into a bargaining chip that the West used to achieve its geopolitical ambitions.
· In 2014, the Americans and their satellites organised an armed coup d'état in Ukraine. It was inspired and driven by radical neo-Nazi groups, which subsequently came to determine Kiev’s government policy in general. For many years, millions of civilians in Donbass have had to survive genocide, shelling and blockade on the part of the Kiev regime. The hatred for everything Russian has become Ukraine’s official ideology. The use of the Russian language has been increasingly restricted, and the canonical Orthodoxy has been subjected to persecution, which now has come to the point of a direct ban.
· Western elites continue to lend a large‑scale political, financial and military support to the current regime, regarding it as a weapon against Russia. We are well aware of that and will keep struggling to achieve all the tasks of the special military operation in order to ensure the security of Russia and its citizens.
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September 2, 2024
