著者

Lkhagvasuren Lkhamsuren

出版者

環日本海学会編集委員会

雑誌

環日本海研究 (ISSN:13430300)

巻号頁・発行日

no.12, pp.17-31, 2006

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From a strategic diplomacy perspective, Russia and China worked intently to bring Mongolia into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) out of a strong desire to avoid an infiltration of American influence. For Mongolia, the strategies of the China/Russia-led SCO meant a shift in diplomatic strategy. That is, this would force a shift from the "nonaligned/neutral" stance the country officially declared through its "Concept of National Security of Mongolia" and " Concept of Mongolia's Foreign Policy" in 1994. Instead, the China/Russia-centered SCO would result in the narrowing of Mongolia's diplomatic options. Because of this, Mongolia was faced with the necessity to rebuild a security framework that applies its uniqueness as a small state. To accomplish this, it is likely that Mongolia would have to implement the following two policies. The first is the realization of the signing of the "Mongolia/China/Russia Trilateral Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of the Mongolian Region," which Mongolia declared at the 47_<th> UN General Assembly in September 1992 and further submitted to China and Russia in 2002 in hopes of turning the declaration into a legally binding agreement. Secondly, vital to future Mongolian diplomacy would be increased participation in ongoing multilateral frameworks including United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) and improvement of national defense policies as an auxiliary aspect of the country's main diplomatic policies regarding national security. The above two points are observations of Mongolian diplomacy as it relates to the SCO.