러시아ㆍ유라시아

In September 1992, in an address to the United Nations, the president of Mongolia declared his country’s territory a nuclear-weapon-free zone. The declaration was about politics, geopolitics and policy. The political context at the time was quite dramatic: the announcement came on the heels of the completion of the Soviet/Russian troop withdrawal from Mongolia, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism in both Russia and Mongolia. The decades of Mongolian dependence on the Soviet Union and hostility toward China were about to become history, as the country set out to normalize its relations with China and revamp those with its new old northern neighbor.