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<span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3.2</span> <span>Participation in UN Peacekeeping operations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Participation_in_UN_Peacekeeping_operations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nuclear-free_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nuclear-free_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3.3</span> <span>Nuclear-free status</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nuclear-free_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Foreign_investment_policy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Foreign_investment_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3.4</span> <span>Foreign investment policy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Foreign_investment_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dinosaur_fossil_return" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a 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href="#Judicial_reform"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4.2</span> <span>Judicial reform</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Judicial_reform-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Environmental_protection" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Environmental_protection"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4.3</span> <span>Environmental protection</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Environmental_protection-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Smart_Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Smart_Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4.4</span> <span>Smart Government</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Smart_Government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Supporting_education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsaxia_Elbeqdorj" title="Tsaxia Elbeqdorj – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Tsaxia Elbeqdorj" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C" title="সাখিয়াজিন এলবেগদর্জ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সাখিয়াজিন এলবেগদর্জ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B1%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6" title="Цахіягійн Элбэгдорж – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Цахіягійн Элбэгдорж" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6" title="Цахиагийн Елбегдорж – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Цахиагийн Елбегдорж" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachjag%C3%ADn_Elbegdord%C5%BE" title="Cachjagín Elbegdordž – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Cachjagín Elbegdordž" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagijn_Elbegdorzj" title="Tsakhiagijn Elbegdorzj – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Tsakhiagijn Elbegdorzj" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsachiagiin_Elbegdordsch" title="Tsachiagiin Elbegdordsch – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Tsachiagiin Elbegdordsch" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsahhiagijn_Elbegdord%C5%BE" title="Tsahhiagijn Elbegdordž – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Tsahhiagijn Elbegdordž" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%8A%CE%BD_%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B6" title="Τσαχιάγκιϊν Ελμπεγκντόρζ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τσαχιάγκιϊν Ελμπεγκντόρζ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsajiaguiin_Elbegdorzh" title="Tsajiaguiin Elbegdorzh – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tsajiaguiin Elbegdorzh" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhia_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhia Elbegdorj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Tsakhia Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%DA%AF%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC" title="تساخیاگین البگدورج – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="تساخیاگین البگدورج" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiyn_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B0%A8%ED%9E%88%EC%95%84%EA%B9%85_%EC%97%98%EB%B2%A1%EB%8F%84%EB%A5%B4%EC%A7%80" title="차히아깅 엘벡도르지 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="차히아깅 엘벡도르지" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiagiyn_Elbegdorj" title="Cahiagiyn Elbegdorj – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Cahiagiyn Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiagijn_%C4%96lb%C4%97gdor%C5%BE" title="Cahiagijn Ėlbėgdorž – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Cahiagijn Ėlbėgdorž" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%97%D7%99%D7%90%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%92%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92%27" title="צחיאגיין אלבגדורג&#039; – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צחיאגיין אלבגדורג&#039;" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AA%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%92%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9F%E1%83%98" title="ცაჰიაგინ ელბეგდორჟი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ცაჰიაგინ ელბეგდორჟი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B1%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6" title="Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbegdord%C5%BEs_Cahjag%C4%ABns" title="Elbegdordžs Cahjagīns – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Elbegdordžs Cahjagīns" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsachiagiin_Elbegdordj" title="Tsachiagiin Elbegdordj – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Tsachiagiin Elbegdordj" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachiagijinas_Elbegdor%C5%BEas" title="Cachiagijinas Elbegdoržas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Cachiagijinas Elbegdoržas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiag%C3%ADn_Elbegdordzs" title="Cahiagín Elbegdordzs – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Cahiagín Elbegdordzs" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC" title="تشياجين البجدورج – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="تشياجين البجدورج" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B1%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6" title="Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsahiagiin_Elbegdorzj" title="Tsahiagiin Elbegdorzj – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Tsahiagiin Elbegdorzj" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%84%E3%82%A1%E3%83%92%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%82%B0%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8" title="ツァヒアギーン・エルベグドルジ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ツァヒアギーン・エルベグドルジ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagijn_Elbegdorzj" title="Tsakhiagijn Elbegdorzj – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Tsakhiagijn Elbegdorzj" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Pangcah" data-language-local-name="Amis" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangcah</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachiagijn_Elbegdord%C5%BC" title="Cachiagijn Elbegdordż – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Cachiagijn Elbegdordż" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%9Aahiaghiin_Elbegdorj" title="Țahiaghiin Elbegdorj – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Țahiaghiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B1%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6" title="Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-trv mw-list-item"><a href="https://trv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Taroko" lang="trv" hreflang="trv" data-title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj" data-language-autonym="Seediq" data-language-local-name="Taroko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seediq</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiagijn_Elbegdorxh" title="Cahiagijn Elbegdorxh – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Cahiagijn Elbegdorxh" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" 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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">President of Mongolia from 2009 to 2017</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_name" title="Mongolian name">Mongolian name</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name">given name</a> is <i> Elbegdorj</i>. <i>Tsakhia</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Patronymic" title="Patronymic">patronymic</a>, not a <a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">family name</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Elbegdorj Tsakhia</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><div class="nickname" lang="mn"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span 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2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanjaagiin_Bayar" title="Sanjaagiin Bayar">Sanjaagiin Bayar</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaataryn_Batbold" title="Sükhbaataryn Batbold">Sükhbaataryn Batbold</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Norovyn_Altankhuyag" title="Norovyn Altankhuyag">Norovyn Altankhuyag</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chimediin_Saikhanbileg" title="Chimediin Saikhanbileg">Chimediin Saikhanbileg</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jargaltulgyn_Erdenebat" title="Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat">Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nambaryn_Enkhbayar" title="Nambaryn Enkhbayar">Nambaryn Enkhbayar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Khaltmaagiin_Battulga" title="Khaltmaagiin Battulga">Khaltmaagiin Battulga</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">18th&#32;<a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Mongolia" title="Prime Minister of Mongolia">Prime Minister of Mongolia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />20 August 2004&#160;–&#32;13 January 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Natsagiin_Bagabandi" title="Natsagiin Bagabandi">Natsagiin Bagabandi</a></li><li>Nambaryn Enkhbayar</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Nambaryn Enkhbayar</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Miyeegombyn_Enkhbold" title="Miyeegombyn Enkhbold">Miyeegombyn Enkhbold</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />23 April 1998&#160;–&#32;9 December 1998</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Natsagiin Bagabandi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mendsaikhany_Enkhsaikhan" title="Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan">Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Janlavyn_Narantsatsralt" title="Janlavyn Narantsatsralt">Janlavyn Narantsatsralt</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Deputy of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Great_Khural" class="mw-redirect" title="People&#39;s Great Khural">People's Great Khural</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1990–1992</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/State_Little_Khural" class="mw-redirect" title="State Little Khural">State Little Khural</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1990–1992</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/State_Great_Khural" title="State Great Khural">State Great Khural</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1992–1994</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kh%C3%B6vsg%C3%B6l_Province" title="Khövsgöl Province">Khövsgöl Province</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1996–2000</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bayankhongor_Province" title="Bayankhongor Province">Bayankhongor Province</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2008–2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chingeltei" title="Chingeltei">Ulaanbaatar, Chingeltei district</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1963-03-30</span>) </span>30 March 1963<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age&#160;61)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Zereg" title="Zereg">Zereg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Republic">Mongolian People's Republic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Mongolia)" title="Democratic Party (Mongolia)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Union_Coalition_(1996%E2%80%932000)" title="Democratic Union Coalition (1996–2000)">Democratic Union</a> (until 2000)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Khajidsuren_Bolormaa" title="Khajidsuren Bolormaa">Khajidsuren Bolormaa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">25 (21 adopted)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" 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title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj&#39;s signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg/103px-Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg.png" decoding="async" width="103" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg/154px-Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg/206px-Signature_of_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="140" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.elbegdorj.mn/">www<wbr />.elbegdorj<wbr />.mn</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data">Mongolian People's Republic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Army" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Army">Mongolian People's Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years&#160;of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1982–1983</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Elbegdorj Tsakhia</b> (<a href="/wiki/Mongolian_language" title="Mongolian language">Mongolian</a>: <span lang="mn">Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> born 30 March 1963) is a Mongolian politician and journalist who served as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Mongolia" title="President of Mongolia">President of Mongolia</a> from 2009 to 2017. He previously served as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Mongolia" title="Prime Minister of Mongolia">prime minister</a> in 1998 and again from 2004 to 2006. </p><p>Elbegdorj was one of the key leaders of the <a href="/wiki/1990_Mongolian_democratic_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="1990 Mongolian democratic revolution">1990 Mongolian democratic revolution</a> that ended 70 years of <a href="/wiki/Communist_Mongolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Mongolia">communist rule in Mongolia</a>, and co-drafted the country's <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Mongolia" title="Constitution of Mongolia">1992 constitution</a> that guaranteed democracy and a <a href="/wiki/Free_market_economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Free market economy">free market economy</a>. Elbegdorj has been labeled by his supporters as a "freedom fighter"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the "Golden Sparrow of Democracy," alluding to a bird that comes with spring sunshine after a long, harsh winter.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Currently, Elbegdorj is a member of <a href="/wiki/The_Elders_(organization)" title="The Elders (organization)">The Elders</a> – established by <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> in 2007 – that works for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Moreover, he is a member of <a href="/wiki/Club_de_Madrid" class="mw-redirect" title="Club de Madrid">Club de Madrid</a> which commits to advancing democracy worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, Elbegdorj is a commissioner of International Commission Against Death Penalty.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Furthermore, he is a vice chairman of <a href="/wiki/International_Democracy_Union" title="International Democracy Union">International Democracy Union</a> -an international alliance of centre right political parties.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj is a patron of World Sustainable Development Forum.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He is the Bernard and Susan Liautaud visiting fellow at <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Freeman_Spogli_Institute_for_International_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies">Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj is a president of World Mongol Federation - an international federation of Mongols around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>His tenure has focused on <a href="/wiki/Anti-corruption" title="Anti-corruption">fighting corruption</a>, <a href="/wiki/Environmental_protection" title="Environmental protection">environmental protection</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Mongolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Women&#39;s rights in Mongolia">women's rights</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Empower_Women_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Empower_Women-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Judicial_reform" title="Judicial reform">judicial reform</a>, <a href="/wiki/Civic_engagement" title="Civic engagement">civic engagement</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Economic_liberalization" title="Economic liberalization">economic liberalization</a> and <a href="/wiki/Privatization" title="Privatization">privatization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Property_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Property rights">property rights</a>, and the abolition of the <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Mongolia" title="Capital punishment in Mongolia">death penalty</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj is the founder of the <i>Ardchilal</i> (English: <i>Democracy</i>) newspaper – the country's first independent newspaper – and helped to establish the first independent television station in Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-Facts_on_File_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Facts_on_File-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj was born into a nomadic herding family in <a href="/wiki/Zereg,_Khovd" class="mw-redirect" title="Zereg, Khovd">Zereg</a> <a href="/wiki/Sums_of_Mongolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Sums of Mongolia">sum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khovd_Province" title="Khovd Province">Khovd province</a>, on 30 March 1963. He was the youngest of eight sons. Elbegdorj spent most of his early childhood herding livestock through the high mountains of Zereg sum.<sup id="cite_ref-Ganchimeg_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganchimeg-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His father, Mongolyn Tsakhia, was a veteran of <a href="/wiki/Soviet-Japanese_border_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet-Japanese border conflict">Mongolia's border conflict</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a> that resulted in the 1939 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Khalkhyn_Gol" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Khalkhyn Gol">Battle of Khalkhyn Gol</a>. Elbegdorj finished the sum's eight-year school (Primary &amp; middle school) in 1979. Afterwards, his family moved to <a href="/wiki/Erdenet" title="Erdenet">Erdenet</a> City, and he finished Erdenet's No. 1 ten-year school (High school) in 1981.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Army_and_studies_in_the_USSR">Army and studies in the USSR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Army and studies in the USSR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1981–82, Elbegdorj worked in copper ore mining and processing plant Erdenet Concern (currently <a href="/wiki/Erdenet_Mining_Corporation" title="Erdenet Mining Corporation">Erdenet Mining Corporation</a>) as a machinist.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1982, he was drafted into military service. For submitting poems to the army newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Ulaan_Od" title="Ulaan Od">Ulaan Od</a></i> (Red Star), which impressed army authorities,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and heading a Revolutionary Youth Unit in the army, he was awarded with the possibility to study military journalism and <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a> at the USSR's Military Political Institute (present day - <a href="/wiki/Hetman_Petro_Sahaidachnyi_National_Ground_Forces_Academy" title="Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy">Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy</a>) under the umbrella of <a href="/wiki/Lviv_Polytechnic" title="Lviv Polytechnic">Lviv Polytechnic</a> National University<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Lviv" title="Lviv">Lviv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> from 1983 on.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He graduated from the academy in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in journalism<sup id="cite_ref-NED_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NED-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and then began working for the newspaper <i>Ulaan Od</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Harvard_Kennedy_School">Harvard Kennedy School</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Harvard Kennedy School"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his first term as prime minister, he spent a year at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Boulder" title="University of Colorado Boulder">University of Colorado Boulder</a>'s Economic Institute.<sup id="cite_ref-Reagan_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reagan-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Then Elbegdorj studied with a full scholarship at Harvard University<sup id="cite_ref-Heads_of_State_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heads_of_State-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Harvard" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard">Harvard</a>'s <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_School_of_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy School of Government">John F. Kennedy School of Government</a> with a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-Talan_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talan-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Desai_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Desai-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leading_democratic_movement">Leading democratic movement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Leading democratic movement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During his studies in the USSR, Elbegdorj learned about <a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">Glasnost</a>, the concepts such as freedom of speech and economic liberties. After returning to Mongolia, he met other like-minded people and tried to present those ideas to a wider audience,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> despite attempts of repression from the Politburo-authority of the government,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and threats by his employer to lose his job. At the end of a speech at the Young Artists' Second National Congress on 28 November 1989, Elbegdorj said that Mongolia needed democracy and appealed to youth to collaborate to create democracy in Mongolia. He told the audience "We consider that <a href="/wiki/Perestroika" title="Perestroika">Perestroika</a> is a timely and brave step. Youth's contribution to this revolutionary matter is not by supportive talks but by certain work. Our contribution is our objectives to be fulfilled. Our objectives are:&#160;... following democracy and transparency and contributing to glasnost,&#160;... and supporting fair progressive power&#160;... These are the objectives of an initiatives' group-an organization that shall work. After the congress I hope we will gather and discuss with you about it in this (newly forming group). The organization shall be based on public, voluntary and democratic principles."<sup id="cite_ref-young_artists_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-young_artists-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The chairman of the congress stopped Elbegdorj's speech and warned him not to say such things. It was 1989 and Mongolia had been a communist country for 68 years.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At that time, it was alleged that every other person was an unofficial communist party spy who would report people who expressed opinions other than socialism and communism.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the break of the congress, two young individuals met Elbegdorj and the three agreed to found a democratic movement and to secretly spread the news to other young people.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later the three met and united with ten other individuals and they are known as the Thirteen Leaders of Mongolia's Democratic Revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On his return from Congress, his boss at the newspaper <i>Ulaan Od</i> warned Elbegdorj that he would be fired if he participated further in any activities out of work or engaged in any conduct inconsistent with communist and socialist ideology.<sup id="cite_ref-young_artists_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-young_artists-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Despite the warning, Elbegdorj and his friends met secretly with other young people in the circle auditorium of the <a href="/wiki/National_University_of_Mongolia" title="National University of Mongolia">National University of Mongolia</a> and discussed democracy, free market economic policy, and other prohibited subjects of the time, and began to draft a plan to organize a democratic movement.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They met many times and brought new friends and new supporters to join them secretly. One night they placed ads for their open demonstration in the streets.<sup id="cite_ref-young_artists_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-young_artists-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the morning of 10 December 1989, the first open pro-democracy demonstration met in front of the Youth Cultural Center in Ulaanbaatar.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There, Elbegdorj announced the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Democratic_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolian Democratic Union">Mongolian Democratic Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CDMongolia_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CDMongolia-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Mongolian Democratic Union founders publicly petitioned the government for a real implementation of perestroika, including allowing a multi-party system, the total implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in all party and government affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In subsequent months activists led by Elbegdorj and others continued to organize demonstrations, rallies, protests and hunger strikes, as well as teachers' and workers' strikes.<sup id="cite_ref-Politburo_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politburo-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Activists had growing support from Mongolians, both in the capital and the countryside and the union's activities led to other calls for democracy all over the country.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Democracy&#39;s_Hero_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Democracy&#39;s_Hero-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After numerous demonstrations of many thousands of people in the capital city as well as provincial centres, the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Party" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Party">Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party</a>'s Politburo – the authority of the government – eventually gave way to the pressure and entered negotiations with the leaders of the democratic movement.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jambyn_Batm%C3%B6nkh" title="Jambyn Batmönkh">Jambyn Batmönkh</a>, chairman of Politburo of MPRP's Central Committee decided to dissolve the Politburo and to resign on 9 March 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This paved the way for the first multi-party elections in Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-Politburo_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politburo-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj announced this news to the hunger strikers and to people who'd gathered on <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaatar_Square" title="Sükhbaatar Square">Sükhbaatar Square</a> at 10 PM on that day after the negotiations between leaders of MPRP and Mongolian Democratic Union.<sup id="cite_ref-young_artists_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-young_artists-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result, Mongolia became the first Asia country to successfully transition from communist rule to democracy.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj worked as the Leader of the Mongolian Democratic Union in 1989–1997.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanders_2010_209_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders_2010_209-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a documentary film about the President (titled: "Man of the People") released in the year of the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the Mongolian democratic changes, President Elbegdorj tells the story of the historical political change and reinventing democracy.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Journalism_career">Journalism career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Journalism career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj worked as a correspondent at <i>Ulaan Od</i>-newspaper of the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Armed_Forces" title="Mongolian Armed Forces">Mongolian Armed Forces</a> and as a chief of an army literature unit between 1988 and 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While in these positions, Elbegdorj wrote articles disclosing all the good and bad in the army units and suggested improvements for the army prior to democratic movement's beginning.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj founded Mongolia's first independent newspaper <i>Ardchilal (Democracy)</i> and worked as its first editor-in-chief in 1990.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> The newspaper played a major role in completing the country's democratic revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-CDMongolia_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CDMongolia-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He co-introduced freedom of the press in the country by co-initiating the Law on Press Freedom and playing a key role in passing the law in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-Ukraine_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ukraine-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj also helped to create Mongolia's first independent TV station <a href="/wiki/Eagle_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Eagle TV">Eagle TV</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-Facts_on_File_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Facts_on_File-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was run by the former Mongolian Broadcasting Company, a joint venture of the U.S. Christian missionary organization AMONG Foundation, and the Mongolia Media Corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legislative_career">Legislative career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Legislative career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj was elected to the Parliament four times, in 1990, 1992, 1996 and 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a Member of the People's Congress, Elbegdorj co-drafted and co-adopted Mongolia's new Constitution on 13 January 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The new Constitution guaranteed human rights, democracy, freedom of religion, and free speech.<sup id="cite_ref-Constitution_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Constitution-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An international intellectual once referred Elbegdorj as "Mongolia's <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj, as the chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Mongolia)" title="Democratic Party (Mongolia)">Democratic Party</a>, co-led the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Union_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Union Coalition">Democratic Union Coalition</a> to its historic victory in the <a href="/wiki/1996_Mongolian_legislative_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1996 Mongolian legislative election">1996 parliamentary elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He served as the Majority Leader of the <a href="/wiki/State_Great_Hural" class="mw-redirect" title="State Great Hural">State Great Hural</a> (Parliament) in 1996–2000<sup id="cite_ref-1996-2000_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996-2000-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and as the Vice Speaker of the Parliament in 1996–1998.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj founded and worked as the head of Mongolia's first Entrepreneurs Association in 1991 as well. The association helped to privatize livestock for free to their herders from the socialist collective farms. As a result, the first private property was given to almost half of Mongolia's entire population.<sup id="cite_ref-NED_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NED-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He supported the privatization of state-owned properties and assets<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and land.<sup id="cite_ref-Land_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Land-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>While as the chairman of the State Commission on Rehabilitation, Elbegdorj initiated and brought the state to apologize for the victims and families of over 36,000 people who had been persecuted and mass massacred during the years of <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Party" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Party">Mongolian People's Party</a>'s communist rule.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He played a key role in the approval of the Rehabilitation Law, which provided rehabilitation and compensation to the survivors and families of political victims, and recovery from the Stalinist purges and prohibited future violation of human rights. In addition, the law established a Memorial Day for Political Victims.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Furthermore, Elbegdorj was a member of the National Counseling Committee of the Democratic Party in 1994–2009; leader and chairman of the Democratic Party in 1996–1999, and April 2006 – September 2008 respectively; and chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Union_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Union Coalition">Democratic Union Coalition</a> of the Mongolian National Democratic Party and Mongolian Social Democratic Party in 1996–2000.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanders_2010_209_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders_2010_209-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prime_minister">Prime minister</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Prime minister"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj served as the prime minister of Mongolia twice; 1998 and 2004–2006.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_term_as_prime_minister">First term as prime minister</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: First term as prime minister"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1998, a clause in the constitution was removed that prohibited members of parliament from taking cabinet responsibility.<sup id="cite_ref-Constitution_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Constitution-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thus on 23 April 1998, the Parliament elected (61–6) Elbegdorj as the prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his first term, Elbegdorj attempted to solve looming economic, structural and political issues through several policy initiatives such as co-initiating Law on Press Freedom and playing a key role to pass the law in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-Ukraine_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ukraine-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Based on this law, another law was passed that changed all daily state newspapers into public newspapers without direct control and censorship from the government.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj's most significant achievement during his first term as prime minister was to collect tax and create tax income. The biggest taxpayer and only significant income contributor to the government's budget at the time was the copper ore mining and processing Erdenet Mining Corporation(EMC) – a joint stock company owned by the governments of Mongolia and the Russian Federation. EMC hadn't paid due tax, income and royalty to Mongolia's government between 1997 and 1998 which resulted in the financial crumbling of the government.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Because of it, previous prime minister Enkhsaikhan stepped down due to pressure from the opposition party, MPRP. After becoming prime minister, Elbegdorj ordered an audit of EMC. The audit result revealed that the state-due income did not enter the state account, instead, it went to dubious accounts of directors at EMC. This embezzlement case was reported in detail in investigative series "Swindle of the Century" on Eagle television.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj dismissed the EMC's chairman. As a result, the government began to receive due tax, royalty and income from the EMC.<sup id="cite_ref-Baabar_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baabar-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, at the recommendations of international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – aid granters to Mongolia, and discount interest rate loan giver Asian Development Bank,<sup id="cite_ref-Baabar_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baabar-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj made a decision to sell state-owned Reconstruction Bank which became illiquid and was experiencing tremendous loss, the biggest financial burden to the economy since its establishment in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Golomt_Bank" title="Golomt Bank">Golomt Bank</a> was the only one that offered to buy Reconstruction Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In response to this and the change of EMC's chairman,<sup id="cite_ref-Baabar_71-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baabar-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the minority group at the Parliament MPRP demanded Elbegdorj to resign and thus resulted Elbegdorj to lose confidence vote at the Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Parliament had prevented Elbegdorj's government from selling the bank. Elbegdorj's decision to sell the Reconstruction Bank was proven to be correct. The bank bankrupted soon after Elbegdorj's first term as prime minister was over and the bankruptcy led the government to suffer a gigantic amount of financial loss.<sup id="cite_ref-Baabar_71-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baabar-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Moreover, Elbegdorj made a decision to financially assist from a tight budget to complete the construction of Mongolia's first Wrestling Palace which was half built for a long time.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He stayed in office until Janlavyn Narantsatsralt replaced him on 9 December 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1998–2004"><span id="1998.E2.80.932004"></span>1998–2004</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: 1998–2004"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj served as the chairman of the Majority Group of the Parliament and the leader of the Democratic Union Coalition and a Member of Parliament respectively from 1996–2000.<sup id="cite_ref-1996-2000_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996-2000-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000–2001, he studied at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Boulder" title="University of Colorado Boulder">University of Colorado Boulder</a>'s Economic Institute,<sup id="cite_ref-Reagan_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reagan-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and earned a diploma. Then he studied with a full scholarship of Harvard University at <a href="/wiki/Harvard" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard">Harvard</a>'s<sup id="cite_ref-Heads_of_State_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heads_of_State-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_School_of_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy School of Government">John F. Kennedy School of Government</a> and graduated with a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-Desai_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Desai-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Then he worked as a consultant at the Millennium Development Goal Project, United Nations Headquarters in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and as a consultant at Radio Free Asia in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> in 2002–2003.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Afterwards, he returned to Mongolia and made series of public speeches touring in Mongolian provinces inspiring the people and the youth sharing his new ideas and perspectives based on his knowledge from Harvard University and the United States in combination with Mongolian way of life in 2003–2004.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His lectures played a significant role to make <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Mongolia)" title="Democratic Party (Mongolia)">Democratic Party</a> get majority seats in <a href="/wiki/2004_Mongolian_legislative_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Mongolian legislative election">2004 Mongolian Parliamentary elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_term_as_prime_minister">Second term as prime minister</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Second term as prime minister"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 20 August 2004, Elbegdorj became the prime minister of Mongolia for the second time.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This time, he headed a grand coalition government after the vote in the <a href="/wiki/2004_Mongolian_legislative_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Mongolian legislative election">parliamentary elections</a> had been evenly split between the two major political forces – Democratic Coalition and the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg/315px-Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg" decoding="async" width="315" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg/473px-Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg/630px-Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_George_W._Bush.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="645" /></a><figcaption>U.S. President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> meets Mongolian Prime Minister Elbegdorj in Ulaanbaatar on 21 November 2005</figcaption></figure> <p>U.S. President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> highlighted about Elbegdorj as one of the country's democratic leaders to have been serving as the prime minister in his speech in Ulaanbaatar on 21 November 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "The world needs more people such as yourself who are willing to admire liberty," President Bush wrote to Elbegdorj immediately after his visit to Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Elbegdorj's term, on 27 January 2005, the government-controlled National State Television and Radio were converted into formally independent public organisations with increasingly smaller control by the government.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Also, legal provisions that prohibited demonstrations on Ulaanbaatar's <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaatar_Square" title="Sükhbaatar Square">Sükhbaatar Square</a> were abolished on 17 November 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his second term as prime minister, Elbegdorj proclaimed a fight against corruption and poverty, which he saw as the biggest challenges to Mongolia's economic development.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj's government signed the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Corruption" title="United Nations Convention Against Corruption">United Nations Convention Against Corruption</a> in April 2005 and ratified it in January 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His administration revealed the Customs chairman's corruption case amounting to millions of dollars from which the ex-chairman donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the MPRP in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-tsag.mn_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsag.mn-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj attempted to support domestic businesses by eliminating excessive regulations, many licensing requirements, and import taxes for key category products.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mongolia was accepted into the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Generalized_System_of_Preferences" title="Generalized System of Preferences">GSP+</a> system,<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which allows Mongolian exporters to pay lower customs tariffs when exporting to the European Union during Elbegdorj's term as prime minister. </p><p>To promote affordable computers and internet access, Elbegdorj established the Information and Communication Agency under the government. He subsidized and supported technical schools and specialized professions to reduce unemployment.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By a decision of his government English replaced Russian as the first foreign language to be taught in public schools.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, Elbegdorj initiated the erection of the Genghis Khan memorial complex in front of Mongolia's <a href="/wiki/Government_Palace_(Mongolia)" title="Government Palace (Mongolia)">government house</a> for the 800th Anniversary of the Great Mongol Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Besides, Elbegdorj initiated a "Green Wall" environmental project to plant trees in barren areas and desert zones to prevent from massive sandstorms from Mongolia reaching to North America<sup id="cite_ref-Land_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Land-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and to reduce air pollution.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2005, Elbegdorj wanted to run in by-elections in Ulaanbaatar's <a href="/wiki/Bayangol,_Ulan_Bator" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayangol, Ulan Bator">Bayangol district</a>. However, the MPRP threatened to leave the coalition if Elbegdorj ran against MPRP candidate <a href="/wiki/Miyeegombyn_Enkhbold" title="Miyeegombyn Enkhbold">Miyeegombyn Enkhbold</a>, and Elbegdorj withdrew.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 13 January 2006, the MPRP left the coalition anyway, and Elbegdorj was forced to resign. The MPRP proceeded to form a new government with the help of DP defectors and independent MPs, and Miyeegombyn Enkhbold became the new prime minister. The events triggered protests from some civic groups and their followers.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mongolian economy had real <a href="/wiki/GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="GDP">GDP</a> growth of 10.4% in 2004, 7.3% in 2005 and 8.6% in 2006 respectively during Elbegdorj's second term as prime minister compared to 7% in 2003 prior to Elbegdorj's government.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2009_presidential_election">2009 presidential election</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: 2009 presidential election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png/220px-Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png/330px-Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png/440px-Mongolia_President_Elections_2009.png 2x" data-file-width="2099" data-file-height="1030" /></a><figcaption>Election preliminary results. Source: <i><a href="/wiki/Montsame_News_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Montsame News Agency">Montsame News Agency</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Mongolia)" title="Democratic Party (Mongolia)">Democratic Party</a>'s convention on 3 April 2009, Elbegdorj defeated <a href="/wiki/Erdeniin_Bat-%C3%9C%C3%BCl" title="Erdeniin Bat-Üül">Erdeniin Bat-Üül</a> in a contest for the party's nomination for the presidency of Mongolia. Elbegdorj won with 65.3% of the total vote.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Elbegdorj was announced as the candidate, the <a href="/wiki/Civic_Will_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Civic Will Party">Civic Will Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Green_Party" title="Mongolian Green Party">Mongolian Green Party</a> endorsed Elbegdorj's presidential candidacy.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj won the <a href="/wiki/2009_Mongolian_presidential_election" title="2009 Mongolian presidential election">2009 Mongolian presidential election</a> on 24 May 2009 with 51.21% of the votes. Defeating incumbent president <a href="/wiki/Nambaryn_Enkhbayar" title="Nambaryn Enkhbayar">Enkhbayar</a> who got 47.41%,<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj was sworn into office as President of Mongolia on 18 June 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-Euronews_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Euronews-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2013_presidential_election">2013 presidential election</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: 2013 presidential election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg/220px-Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg/330px-Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg/440px-Mongolia_President_Elections_2013.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2296" data-file-height="1780" /></a><figcaption>Election result: Provinces and Ulaanbaatar districts won by Elbegdorj (blue), Bat-Erdene (red). Darker shades represent a majority (more than half), lighter shades represent pluralities.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Mongolia)" title="Democratic Party (Mongolia)">Democratic Party</a>'s National Consultative Committee held its convention on 7 May 2013 and decided to re-nominate Elbegdorj as a presidential candidate with 100% votes.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> And the Congress of Democratic Party, with 7,000 participants in Ulaanbaatar plus participants in all provincial centers connected via live internet video conference voted 100% for Elbegdorj's nomination from the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Mongolia)" title="Democratic Party (Mongolia)">Democratic Party</a> for the 2013 presidential election on 8 May 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Civil_Will-Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Will-Green Party">Civil Will-Green Party</a> and Mongolian National Democratic Party – which have seats at both the parliament and the government cabinet – endorsed Elbegdorj's presidential candidacy.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Republican Party and the Motherland Party expressed their full support for Elbegdorj's candidacy also.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj won the <a href="/wiki/2013_Mongolian_presidential_election" title="2013 Mongolian presidential election">2013 Mongolian presidential election</a> on 26 June 2013 with 50.23% of total votes while opposition <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Party" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Party">Mongolian People's Party</a>'s candidate <a href="/wiki/Badmaanyambuugiin_Bat-Erdene" title="Badmaanyambuugiin Bat-Erdene">Badmaanyambuugiin Bat-Erdene</a> received 41.97%, and <a href="/wiki/Natsagiin_Udval" title="Natsagiin Udval">Natsagiin Udval</a>, candidate of <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party_(2010)" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Revolutionary Party (2010)">Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party</a> got 6.5% of total votes.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reaction_to_election_result">Reaction to election result</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Reaction to election result"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> issued a statement on the presidential election in Mongolia on 27 June 2013, the same day the election result was announced.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> President Obama <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/06/20130628277812.html?CP.rss=true#ixzz2XWTIooGV">stated</a>: "President Elbegdorj has been an important leader in advancing democracy and freedom in his country and a key partner for the United States in Asia and globally&#160;... Through its impressive democratic achievements and its progress on economic liberalization, Mongolia serves as a significant example of positive reform and transformation for peoples around the world."<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elbegdorj_and_Ban_Ki-moon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Elbegdorj_and_Ban_Ki-moon.jpg/230px-Elbegdorj_and_Ban_Ki-moon.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Elbegdorj_and_Ban_Ki-moon.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="331" data-file-height="285" /></a><figcaption>UN Secretary General <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> and Elbegdorj meet at the UN Headquarters on 19 September 2011</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Vuk_Jeremi%C4%87" title="Vuk Jeremić">Vuk Jeremić</a>, <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="President of the United Nations General Assembly">President of the United Nations General Assembly</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Sixty-seventh_session_of_the_United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="Sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly">67th session</a> expressed satisfaction with the fair and successful election in his congratulations<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj on 27 June 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> UN Secretary General <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> congratulated for successful presidential election in Mongolia in his congratulatory message to Elbegdorj.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> President <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso" title="José Manuel Barroso">José Manuel Barroso</a> said "The European Commission considers that the presidential election has become another vital step of the Mongolian people to establish a democratic society that respects the rule of law and human rights" in his congratulatory note<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to Elbegdorj on 28 June 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> German Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> pointed out "The <a href="/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe" title="Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe">Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe</a> sent its group to Mongolia for the first time to observe the presidential election, and it was an expression of strengthening democracy and transparency in Mongolia," in her congratulations to Elbegdorj.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj is also the third Mongolian president to be reelected. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidency">Presidency</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Presidency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj won the Mongolian presidential elections twice: on <a href="/wiki/2009_Mongolian_presidential_election" title="2009 Mongolian presidential election">24 May 2009</a> and <a href="/wiki/2013_Mongolian_presidential_election" title="2013 Mongolian presidential election">26 June 2013</a>. Elbegdorj was sworn into office on 18 June 2009 for his first term,<sup id="cite_ref-Euronews_102-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Euronews-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and on 10 July 2013 for his second term as President of Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-2nd_inauguration_1_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2nd_inauguration_1-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj is Mongolia's first president to never have been a member of the former communist <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Party" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Party">Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party</a> and the first to obtain a Western education.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg/300px-Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg/450px-Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg/600px-Barack_Obama_welcomes_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_to_the_Oval_Office.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2731" /></a><figcaption>President Elbegdorj meeting with U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in June 2011</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inauguration">Inauguration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Inauguration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj was sworn into office for his first term as President of Mongolia in <a href="/wiki/Government_Palace_(Mongolia)" title="Government Palace (Mongolia)">State House</a> in front of the Parliament and guests on 18 June 2009. His inauguration ceremony included his address to the nation<sup id="cite_ref-president.mn_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-president.mn-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a military parade on <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaatar_Square" title="Sükhbaatar Square">Sükhbaatar Square</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The United States Senate passed Resolution Number 192<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> supporting Mongolia's democracy and economic development and noting Elbegdorj's election victory on the day he was sworn in on 18 June 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his second term as President of Mongolia, Elbegdorj was sworn into office in front of the Chinggis Khaan (also referred as <a href="/wiki/Genghis_Khan" title="Genghis Khan">Genghis Khan</a>) monument,<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Nine White Banners of Mongolia, the Parliament and public on <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaatar_Square" title="Sükhbaatar Square">Sükhbaatar Square</a> on 10 July 2013. This is the first time a Mongolian president made an oath in front of public in the country's history.<sup id="cite_ref-2nd_inauguration_1_119-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2nd_inauguration_1-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2nd_inauguration_2_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2nd_inauguration_2-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2nd_inauguration_3_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2nd_inauguration_3-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After making an oath, he addressed to the nation,<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a military parade followed.<sup id="cite_ref-2nd_inauguration_1_119-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2nd_inauguration_1-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Peace Laureate">Nobel Peace Laureate</a>, co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_bloc" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern bloc">Soviet bloc's</a> first independent trade union Solidarity, former Polish President <a href="/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa" title="Lech Wałęsa">Lech Wałęsa</a> attended Elbegdorj's second inauguration as president.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Democracy_and_human_rights">Democracy and human rights</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Democracy and human rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Presidency_of_the_Community_of_Democracies">Presidency of the Community of Democracies</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Presidency of the Community of Democracies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj served as a chair of the <a href="/wiki/Community_of_Democracies" title="Community of Democracies">Community of Democracies</a> from 2011 to 2013, an intergovernmental coalition of democratic countries of which Mongolia is a participating member.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Under his presidency, Mongolia successfully organized the VII Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with democracy icon guest speakers namely chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Burma and <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Peace Laureate">Nobel Peace Laureate</a> <a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a>, "Mother of the Revolution" of <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Revolution">2011 Yemeni uprising</a> and Nobel Peace Laureate <a href="/wiki/Tawakkol_Karman" title="Tawakkol Karman">Tawakkol Karman</a>, Elbegdorj, Thailand's Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Yingluck_Shinawatra" title="Yingluck Shinawatra">Yingluck Shinawatra</a> and others, on 27–29 April 2013. The conference had over 1300 participants from more than 100 countries<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and issued Ulaanbaatar Declaration "Community's Attainments and Global Challenges."<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Within the coalition, Elbegdorj led initiatives such as <i>Zero Tolerance of Corruption</i> and <i>Education for Democracy</i> and spoke on behalf of the initiatives at the 66th session of the General Assembly of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> on 21 September 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He worked with the coalition members to form an agenda to consolidate civil society and strengthen democracy.<sup id="cite_ref-GC_of_CD_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GC_of_CD-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Advocating_democracy_and_human_rights">Advocating democracy and human rights</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Advocating democracy and human rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj is a frequent lecturer on democracy and human rights, both domestically and abroad. Elbegdorj said in his speech<sup id="cite_ref-speech_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-speech-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "It is a human desire to live free that is an eternal power" at Kim Il Sung University in North Korea.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj remarked "I truly believe in freedom for each and every individual" at the <a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One of his latest public speeches is "Myanmar and Mongolia: On the Road to Freedom and Democracy" made jointly with Nobel Peace Laureate <a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" title="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</a> on 30 April 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Aung San Suu Kyi publicly expressed her appreciation in person to Elbegdorj for having been a strong voice in Asia for her release from house arrest in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> (Burma) until her release.<sup id="cite_ref-Suu_Kyi_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Suu_Kyi-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the ASEM8 Summit on 3 October 2010, Elbegdorj openly called on Myanmar's authorities to free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, and not long after she was released. In June 2016 President Elbegdorj visited the newly elected State Counsellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aung San Suu Kyi "in honor of the 60th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Mongolia and Myanmar".<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the same visit he addressed a full house audience of civil servants sharing the values of democratic societies, urging them to fight against corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2012, following his talks at the Parliament of <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a> and meeting with Kyrgyz NGO leaders and students to share Mongolia's experience towards democracy for two decades, Elbegdorj began the establishment of the Democratic Transition Assistance Foundation of Mongolia. The new initiative calls for the allocation of certain funds from the Mongolian budget to be used to support democratic transitions in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan along with economic reforms in countries such as North Korea and Myanmar while using Mongolia's democratic reform and consolidation as a model. In the summer of 2012, the foundation hosted several delegations from Kyrgyzstan, North Korea and Myanmar to study Mongolia's experience of judicial reform and mineral legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>To encourage the adoption of democratic governance in Asian countries, Elbegdorj, along with Korean President <a href="/wiki/Lee_Myung_Bak" class="mw-redirect" title="Lee Myung Bak">Lee Myung Bak</a>, started the Asian Partnership for Democracy initiative in 2011 as an arm of the Community of Democracies with a particular focus on the region in which Mongolia is one of the longest standing democracies.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj condemned the violence in Syria and called on world leaders to unify to end the bloodshed. He criticized the attack on the US Embassy in Libya<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> by saying "The mission of diplomacy is peaceful. Attacking diplomatic compounds are violation of both the letter and spirit of international law," in his address <sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 27 September 2012. The U.S. Foreign Policy Association and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) awarded Elbegdorj with the New York Democracy Forum's Presidential Medal on 22 September 2011. The award recognized "the vital role Elbegdorj played in Mongolia's historic democratic revolution in 1989, the country's successful democratic transition, the consolidation of its new democratic institutions and his solidarity with other democrats in Asia, the Middle East and other regions."<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000 Elbegdorj founded Mongolia's Liberty Center, a non-governmental organization advocating human rights, freedom of expression and education. Elbegdorj spoke at many democracy conferences including "Re-founding America" conference sponsored by the International Society for Individual Liberty in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States in 2007 prior to his presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Direct_democracy_and_civic_participation">Direct democracy and civic participation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Direct democracy and civic participation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008, Elbegdorj opened the Citizens' Hall – a public hearing forum which encourages the participation of Mongolian citizens in the parliament's decision-making. In each proceeding, citizens are given time to speak and express their opinions on pending legislation. The hall is open to any of Mongolia's 2.9 million people and is located in <a href="/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" title="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</a>; some additional halls have been opened in other provinces. They are designed to encourage civil participation to have a consensus between legislators and citizens before any open issue becomes law.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj emphasized "Democracy is about empowering the people and not bestowing power to someone," "The time has come to transfer to the discretion of the people, to the business and professional communities especially in the countryside the power to make decisions for themselves and to engage in businesses and services they are naturally entitled to," "The progress and prosperity of a civil society is defined not by centralization of power, but with transfer of rights, effective exercise of the rights by people," in his inaugural address for his first term as president. </p><p>Elbegdorj created a concept for decentralization: increasing local powers with civic participation, creating local development funds, and giving financial support to local authorities from central government budget. He submitted the concept to the Parliament to make it a part of the new Organic Budget Law and the law was passed with the part.<sup id="cite_ref-budget_sonin_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-budget_sonin-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When the bill was under discussion, the Presidential Office in collaboration with the Budget Standing Committee of the Parliament organized "Empowering Local Administration with Civic Participation" forum<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with guest speakers from Direct Democracy Center in Switzerland<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> at Elbegdorj's invitation on 27 May 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The centre's director also lectured on "Local level structure of direct democracy in Switzerland" to Mongolian students.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Then Elbegdorj's office developed a policy document reflecting suggestions of citizens discussed in the Citizens' Hall and Elbegdorj issued a decree to approve "Medium and long term national policy document on decentralization through direct democracy and civic participation."<sup id="cite_ref-budget_sonin_151-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-budget_sonin-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Then, from 8 September 2012<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> through April 2013, his office jointly with local governments and parliaments organized nationwide training "Direct democracy – Budget management with civic participation"<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> for ordinary citizens, civil servants and local authorities about how citizens can participate in local government budget spending from local development funds to decide life in their localities.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj said "citizen participation and monitoring are still missing in the public decision making. There cannot be a civil society without citizen participation," in his remarks at the <a href="/wiki/National_Diet" title="National Diet">National Diet</a> of Japan in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Women's_rights"><span id="Women.27s_rights"></span>Women's rights</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Women&#039;s rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj has long been an advocate for women's rights and more proportional representation of women in the decision-making level of governments. He stressed the importance of women in leadership, highlighting the three-fold increase of women representatives elected in the 2012 Mongolian parliamentary elections in his speech at the <a href="/wiki/UN_General_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="UN General Assembly">UN General Assembly</a> in September 2012. "We need more women leaders. Women tend to see the whole picture. For society to advance, we need more women in public service at all levels – local to global. They bring a unique perspective often missing in global challenges," Elbegdorj said "Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict."<sup id="cite_ref-Empower_Women_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Empower_Women-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 July 2011 during the meeting with Elbegdorj in Ulaanbaatar, U.S. Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> praised Mongolia's recent parliamentary elections in which nine women were elected and applauded Mongolia for its "courage" in building a democratic system in a country surrounded by Russia and China.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "Mongolia encourages women’s involvement in the political system with the intention of improving their role in society" Elbegdorj said in his lecture at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the 2013 Mongolian presidential election, Natsagiin Udval, Mongolia's first female presidential contender ran against Elbegdorj.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj said "Public policies on social welfare or protection should reflect kindness and tenderness of mothers," in his public lecture at Yangon University in Yangon, Myanmar.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Abolition_of_capital_punishment">Abolition of capital punishment</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Abolition of capital punishment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 14 January 2010, Elbegdorj announced that he would, henceforth, systematically use his prerogative to pardon all persons <a href="/wiki/Sentenced_to_death" class="mw-redirect" title="Sentenced to death">sentenced to death</a>. He stated that <a href="/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Use of capital punishment by nation">most countries in the world had abolished the death penalty</a>, and Mongolia should follow their example. He suggested that capital punishment would be commuted to a thirty-year prison sentence. The decision was controversial; when Elbegdorj announced it in <a href="/wiki/State_Great_Khural" title="State Great Khural">Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Party" title="Mongolian People&#39;s Party">MPRP</a> representatives did not give the applause customarily due after a presidential speech.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (See: <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Mongolia" title="Capital punishment in Mongolia">Capital punishment in Mongolia</a>) </p><p>Elbegdorj stated "Capital punishment is wrong–it degrades human dignity. It brings no peace to society. It does not deter crime and does not lift up mankind,"<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> at the High-Level Meeting on the Rule of Law of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2012. "By ratifying the Second Optional Protocol Mongolia would add yet one more country in the world community to fully abolish the death penalty. Pardoning a life does not mean pardoning a penalty. The punishment for serious and cruel felonies must be severe and must be just. However, I do not think it is just to deprive any citizens of life in the name of the state. The right to life is one of the fundamental rights of a human being and cannot depend on anyone, not even on the head of state. The state should respect very fundamental human rights, and secure them by law," Elbegdorj pointed out in his greeting<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to the delegation of the 5th international meeting of Justice Ministers on 18 May 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Four months after Elbegdorj's announcement of a moratorium on the death penalty by his pardon, a survey was conducted among Mongolian legal academics asking whether it is right or wrong to abolish the death penalty in Mongolia. 83% of the survey participants responded that it was wrong. They criticized "By pardoning death row inmates, the Mongolian President directly interferes in criminal procedures. Nobody has the right to change court rulings."<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Article 33.1.8 of the Constitution, the Mongolian president has the prerogative "to grant pardon."<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some academics and critics considered that it is too early and wrong to abolish death penalty in Mongolia,<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> explaining that murder crimes are becoming too brutal and severe since the death penalty would not be implemented.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite much criticism from domestic conservative politicians, the opposition, and critics, Elbegdorj's decision was positively received internationally. <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> noted "President Elbegdorj's actions demonstrate commitment to the protection of human rights and set a good example for other Asian countries in the region," on 18 February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> International organization "Hands off Cain" awarded Elbegdorj with "Abolitionist of the Year 2011" noting Mongolia as an example that fosters the right to life among Asian countries.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finally, in 2012, the Mongolian parliament amended a law to join the <a href="/wiki/Second_Optional_Protocol_to_the_International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights" title="Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights">Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights</a>, making Mongolia a state party to the convention and reinforcing the country's commitment to the abolition of capital punishment.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in June 2016, President Elbegdorj sent a video message in which he stands up against capital punishment and shares his views and taken actions to fully abolish death penalty in Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He did share the same views during his visit to Strasbourg in 2015 addressing the European Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Foreign policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mongolia_hosts_11th_Asia-Europe_Meeting_(ASEM)_Summit"><span id="Mongolia_hosts_11th_Asia-Europe_Meeting_.28ASEM.29_Summit"></span>Mongolia hosts 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Mongolia hosts 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ASEM_11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/ASEM_11.jpg/720px-ASEM_11.jpg" decoding="async" width="720" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/ASEM_11.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="734" data-file-height="324" /></a><figcaption>Asia Europe Meeting 11 in Ulaanbaatar on 15–16 July 2016</figcaption></figure><p> Under the leadership of Elbegdorj, Mongolia hosted the 11th Asia-Europe Summit (ASEM 11) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 15 and 16 July 2016 for the first time. Leaders, heads of state, prime ministers and delegates from 51 countries, the European Commission and ASEAN participated in the summit under theme "20 Years of ASEM: Partnership for the Future through Connectivity."<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>About foreign policy, "Mongolia shall remain an active member of the international community and shall actively cooperate in addressing regional and global challenges," Elbegdorj emphasized in his inaugural address for his first term as President of Mongolia on 18 June 2009. Moreover, he noted that Mongolia shall foster and expand cooperation with the country's two neighbours and "third neighbours," in the same address. "Mongolia shall consistently continue her traditional foreign policies enriched with new content and dimensions," he stated in the same speech. </p><p>To strengthen the relations with the countries of the European Union President Elbegdorj addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in June 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his speech, Elbegdorj defines Mongolia as a strategic anchor for the EU in the East: "The EU is the world’s premier invention for advancing global prosperity, peace and harmony. Mongolia will be a strategic anchor for the EU in the East, helping advance our shared values and interests, and for building peace, democracy and engagement in Asia."<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a documentary film titled "Mongolia – Democratic Anchor of the East"<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj was interviewed about the third-neighbour policy and foreign affairs. </p><p>Elbegdorj reiterated "Mongolia shall continue her open and pro-active engagement and cooperation at the regional and international fora," "Mongolia shall continue her constructive cooperation with other countries and international organizations. We shall work to promote mutually beneficial and constructive decisions in bilateral relations with our neighbours in infrastructure, investment, trade, transit transport and other pending issues," in his inaugural address for his second term as president on 10 July 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj praised the choice of the Kyrgyz people for parliamentary governance and their resolute struggle for freedom and justice in his speech at the Kyrgyz Parliament in April 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Following traditional friendly relations with North Korea, Elbegdorj has a good relationship with North Korea. 50,000 North Korean football fans cheered Elbegdorj in a stadium for his football kick during his official visit to North Korea in October 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj gave a lecture titled "It is the human desire to live free that is an eternal power," as the first foreign Head of State to read a lecture on this topic at the Kim Il Sung University.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Participation_in_UN_Peacekeeping_operations">Participation in UN Peacekeeping operations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Participation in UN Peacekeeping operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg/510px-Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg" decoding="async" width="510" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg/765px-Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg/1020px-Elbegdorj_in_Sudan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="295" /></a><figcaption>Elbegdorj in the center of front row, with the <a href="/wiki/UNMISS" class="mw-redirect" title="UNMISS">UNMISS</a> and South Sudanese authorities, and Mongolian troops in South Sudan on 15 February 2013</figcaption></figure> <p>As commander-in-chief of the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Armed_Forces" title="Mongolian Armed Forces">Mongolian Armed Forces</a>, Elbegdorj supports Mongolia's commitment and participation in <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_peacekeeping_missions" title="List of United Nations peacekeeping missions">United Nations Peacekeeping operations</a>. Since 2001, Mongolian troops have participated in international peacekeeping missions in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Sudan" title="South Sudan">South Sudan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darfur" title="Darfur">Darfur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara" title="Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Under Elbegdorj's presidency, Mongolia became one of the top 20 peacekeeping contributors to the United Nations peacekeeping missions in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-64th_session_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64th_session-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg/280px-Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg/420px-Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg/560px-Elbegdorj_in_Sudan_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption>Elbegdorj in the center of front row, with Mongolian troops in South Sudan on 15 February 2013</figcaption></figure> <p>Elbegdorj visited South Sudan to encourage Mongolian soldiers on 15 February 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Elbegdorj's visit was the first to South Sudan by a head of state from outside Africa. His visit is also the first from a country contributing troops to the UN mission," Hiruy Amanuel, chief political affairs representative at <a href="/wiki/UNMISS" class="mw-redirect" title="UNMISS">UNMISS</a> said.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As an officer in the Mongolian Armed Forces, Elbegdorj's son Erdene Elbegdorj participated in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan from March to November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, as an active member of the UN peacekeeping missions, "Mongolia stands committed to enhancing its contribution, including through hosting training for civil police and medical personnel at its training centre," Elbegdorj stated at the General Debate of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-64th_session_190-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64th_session-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Analysing the role of peacekeeping in Mongolia's military strategy, Christopher Pultz mentions in his article the related "third neighbours" policy of the President: "Mongolia is developing a unique military strategy that attempts to balance conventional and peacekeeping capabilities. Having moved away from its previous security arrangements with Russia, Mongolia now pursues a foreign policy that will facilitate global engagement while allowing the country to maintain its sovereignty, national identity, and diplomatic freedom of maneuver through a "third neighbor" policy."<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In an interview with the President in a documentary (titled "Mongolia – Democratic Anchor of the East"), Elbegdorj explained the same policy in details. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nuclear-free_status">Nuclear-free status</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Nuclear-free status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj has committed Mongolia to be nuclear-free and a nuclear free world as a principal component of his foreign policy agenda. The United Nations <a href="/wiki/Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Security Council">Security Council</a> recognized Mongolia's nuclear-weapon-free status on 17 September 2012 despite the fact that it cannot join one of the World's Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones, in part, because of the country's close proximity to nuclear-armed states Russia and China.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mongolia renounced nuclear materials and became a member of <a href="/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe" title="Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe">Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe</a> in 2013 and UN General Assembly's President Vuk Jeremic congratulated Elbegdorj for these.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj made international headlines in 2012 after being the first world leader invited to visit the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz. After his visit, he stressed "the program has to be transparent to the world; in particular, the program must be under permanent supervision of the United Nations and the <a href="/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Agency" title="International Atomic Energy Agency">International Atomic Energy Agency</a>. Iran's nuclear program must not endanger or cause threat to the interests and security of regional peace as well as of any other nation. Mongolia remains committed to safeguarding her nuclear free status, supported by the special UN resolutions. Mongolia will seek to contribute to securing universal peace by fully banning nuclear weapons in East Asia and the world at large."<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Opposing to storing nuclear waste in Mongolia, Elbegdorj said "We&#160;... firmly oppose to storing nuclear waste on Mongolian soil," in his speech at the High-Level Meeting on the Rule of Law of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Before, he noted it in his speech at the General Debate of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 21 September 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Foreign_investment_policy">Foreign investment policy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Foreign investment policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>About foreign investment policy, Elbegdorj stated "I stand open to cooperate with responsible, transparent and law-obedient investors aligned with the development interests of Mongolia," in his inaugural address for his second term <sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as the country's president on 10 July 2013. </p><p>Furthermore, while speaking about judicial reforms<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to protect domestic and foreign investors, Elbegdorj said "Our goal is to change it from a system that serves those in power to one that serves the public. It is important to note that when we say 'the people' we are also referring to our foreign investment partners."<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The United States Senate passed Resolution Number 208<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> on the occasion of Elbegdorj's visit to the United States on 15 June 2011. The resolution title is "Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj's visit to Washington, D.C., and its support for the growing partnership between the United States and Mongolia." The resolution noted "Whereas on May 24, 2009, the people of Mongolia completed the country's fourth free, fair, and peaceful democratic election, which resulted in the election of opposition Democratic Party candidate Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj." The Senate's resolution resolved "It is the sense of the Senate that Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj's historic visit to Washington, D.C. cements the growing friendship between the governments and peoples of the United States and Mongolia; the continued commitment of the Mongolian people and the Government of Mongolia to advancing democratic reforms, strengthening transparency and the rule of law, and protecting investment deserves acknowledgment and celebration."<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg/220px-Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg/330px-Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg/440px-Elbegdorj_speaking_at_Fair_Mineral_Development_roundtable.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="294" /></a><figcaption>Elbegdorj speaking at "Fair Mineral Development" roundtable co-hosted by his office and the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> in Ulaanbaatar on 17 June 2010</figcaption></figure> <p>Elbegdorj initiated and co-hosted with the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> "Fair Mineral Development" roundtable in Ulaanbaatar in June 2010. It was the first multi-stakeholder meeting in the mineral resource rich country focusing on determining the key stakeholders for negotiating mineral development agreements, and decision-making authorities in the licensing negotiation process; transparency issues in the negotiation process; issues related to land tenure, royalties and taxes; reopening and renegotiation of mineral agreements; dispute resolution mechanisms; and revenue distribution, work force and community development.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With the World Economic Forum, Elbegdorj co-organized second roundtable "Responsible Mineral Development Initiative" in the Citizens' Hall under the Office of the President of Mongolia during the Mongolia Economic Forum on 3–4 March 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "More and more mineral development agreements are expected for Mongolia in this century," Elbegdorj noted in his opening remarks at this second roundtable. He highlighted "Supporting sustainable development and making the minerals sector beneficial to the people and the country's development, while working in good cooperation with foreign investors, and making the government's operations transparent to the public are some of the issues of utmost concern for countries such as ours."<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dinosaur_fossil_return">Dinosaur fossil return</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Dinosaur fossil return"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The auction of a nearly complete dinosaur's skeleton<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> eight feet tall and 24 feet long<sup id="cite_ref-dino_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dino-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> rare <i><a href="/wiki/Tarbosaurus" title="Tarbosaurus">Tarbosaurus</a> T. bataar</i><sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> scavenged from Mongolia was announced at Heritage Auctions in New York City on 20 May 2012 with the asking price of one million dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-dino_be_auctioned_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dino_be_auctioned-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Fossils found in Mongolia are the property of Mongolia and its people by law.<sup id="cite_ref-dino_209-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dino-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Receiving a complaint from a Mongolian paleontologist,<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj promptly filed a lawsuit claiming the illegally smuggled skeleton from Mongolia in the United States Court through his American lawyer.<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj won the case with the professional help of internationally well known American and Mongolian paleontologists.<sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The U.S. authorities handed the fossils to the Mongolian party in May 2013 after the case was resolved.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The skeleton, returned to Mongolia along with other dinosaur fossils, was on public display at <a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaatar_Square" title="Sükhbaatar Square">Sükhbaatar Square</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" title="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</a> for a few months.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This is the first lawsuit ever claimed abroad by a Mongolian president. The dinosaur fossil dealer pleaded guilty and faced a sentence of up to 17 years in prison in the USA.<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_policy">Domestic policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: Domestic policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anti-corruption">Anti-corruption</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: Anti-corruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj's presidential actions have focused on advocating anti-corruption measures.<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "I sincerely believe that the true enemy of democracy and freedom is corruption&#160;... The worst theft is corruption which damages people's common rights and liberties&#160;... I am convinced that fighting corruption must be one of the most important duties of the Mongolian State today," Elbegdorj noted.<sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Previously, during his two terms as a prime minister, he worked to uncover and eliminate several corruption scandals including his handling of the Erdenet Mining Corporation's embezzlement scandal in 1998,<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and his administration dug out the Customs chairman's corruption case in 2005. In September 2009 Elbegdorj replaced the Community Council of Independent Authority Against Corruption (IAAC) formed by former President <a href="/wiki/Nambaryn_Enkhbayar" title="Nambaryn Enkhbayar">Nambaryn Enkhbayar</a> which included sports and music stars and supreme clergy while expressing his dissatisfaction with its investigation of petty corruption instead of political level corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He then reorganized the council with professional lawyers.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>To create a dialogue among different stakeholders in the natural resources and mining community to stop corruption Elbegdorj opened a roundtable in Ulaanbaatar in collaboration with the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a>'s <i>Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI)</i> in March 2011. The meeting brought together top executives of Mongolian industries and NGOs to discuss anti-corruption initiatives in Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Moreover, he encouraged the parliament to take actions to prevent from corruption and jointly organized with the parliament's State Standing Committee and the <a href="/wiki/International_Institute_for_Democracy_and_Electoral_Assistance" title="International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance">International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance</a> "Policy Reform and the Funding of Political Activities" forum.<sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG/220px-Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG/330px-Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG/440px-Mongolian_President_Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3504" data-file-height="2336" /></a><figcaption>Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj making a speech</figcaption></figure> <p>Elbegdorj sees <a href="/wiki/Genghis_Khan" title="Genghis Khan">Chinggis Khaan</a> (also referred to as Genghis Khan) as a leader from whom to learn for anti-corruption efforts. He said that Genghis Khan sought equal protection under the law for all citizens regardless of status or wealth. "Chinggis&#160;... was a man who deeply realized that the justice begins and consolidates with the equality of law, and not with distinctions between people. He was a man who knew that good laws and rules lived longer than fancy palaces," Elbegdorj highlighted in his speech<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> on the 850th anniversary of Chinggis Khaan's birth. </p><p>"The crime called corruption is committed by public servants, and not citizens," Elbegdorj pointed out at the High-Level Meeting on the Rule of Law of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2012. "Today we put an end to&#160;... amorality. We cannot afford to let Mongolia's future be tortured by corrupt officials for another year, another decade&#160;... We must put an end to this,"<sup id="cite_ref-230" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj pointed out in his first inaugural address. Thus under Elbegdorj's presidency, embezzlement and corruption cases amounting from millions to hundreds of millions of dollars, ranging from misappropriation of state properties and assets such as a printing factory, buildings, funds and taxes have been tried and the courts convicted high level statesmen including a former president of Mongolia,<sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a former chairman of Mineral Resources Authority, ex-chairmen of state owned Mongolian Airlines MIAT and their allies.<sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, big scale corruption cases involving suspects such as former health and education ministers, former deputy chairman of Tax Authority are under investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mongolia's corruption perception ranking reduced by 26 places in one year from 2011 to 2012 comparing to the 120th place to the 94th according to Transparency International.<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> U.S. Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> applauded Elbegdorj and Mongolia on the country's democratic progress and efforts to end corruption in her speech<sup id="cite_ref-236" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> at the International Women's Leadership Forum in Ulaanbaatar on 9 July 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Judicial_reform">Judicial reform</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Judicial reform"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the Constitution of Mongolia, the President of Mongolia appoints the justices and judges of all levels of courts of Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-Constitution_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Constitution-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj convened "Judicial Reform and Justice" Forum in <a href="/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" title="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</a>, Mongolia in April 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-238" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Mongolian parliament passed a package law on judicial reform submitted by Elbegdorj in 2011. Those laws were designed to ensure the impartiality of judges and justices and created a merit-based system for the selection of new judges and justices. In addition, the judicial reform allows citizens' representatives to participate in court hearings and trials and requires that all judicial decisions be placed on the Internet open to the public.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Environmental_protection">Environmental protection</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Environmental protection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Environment_Programme" title="United Nations Environment Programme">United Nations Environmental Programme</a> awarded Elbegdorj as a Champion of the Earth for his commitment to environmental protection on 4 June 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> U.N. Secretary General <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> highly appreciates Elbegdorj's contribution to the international community's efforts for ensuring sustainable development and keeping climate change issues under control, as he emphasized in his congratulatory note to Elbegdorj for his re-election as President of Mongolia on 2 July 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-241" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, Elbegdorj worked as a member of the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a>'s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change for the year of 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-Asia_Foundation_242-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asia_Foundation-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj declared a day as Tree Planting Day by decree on 4 April 2010<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and has been organizing a tree planting campaign around the country.<sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On that day organizations and people plant trees to alleviate desertification in Mongolia. Many non-governmental organizations and social networks support Elbegdorj's call to plant trees.<sup id="cite_ref-245" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He ordered schools to have environmental subjects in schools' curricula.<sup id="cite_ref-environment_246-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-environment-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With support from his office, students began to plant and take care of trees they planted around their schools and television serials on planting trees have been broadcast.<sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 14 May 2011, Tree Planting Day, Mongolians planted two million trees.<sup id="cite_ref-Asia_Foundation_242-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asia_Foundation-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The event became a tradition of planting two million trees on every Tree Planting Day annually. In addition, his policy includes an environmentally friendly policy in the mining industry.<sup id="cite_ref-environment_246-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-environment-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the invitation of Elbegdorj, the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a>-Water Resources Group and Office of the President of Mongolia co-organized the <i>Water Secure Future in Mongolia</i> conference in Ulaanbaatar on 3 June 2011 in which over 100 government officials, parliamentarians, civil society and private sector representatives participated to find ways to safeguard Mongolia's scarce water resources in the context of its rapid economic growth. They discussed water use in the mining, agricultural and municipal sectors, shared case studies of international good practice for boosting water efficiency and ways of safeguarding Mongolia's water supplies. As a result, Elbegdorj and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brabeck-Letmathe" title="Peter Brabeck-Letmathe">Peter Brabeck-Letmathe</a>, Chairman of the World Economic Forum-Water Resources Group and Member of the World Economic Forum Foundation Board, committed to forming a Mongolian Water Alliance of key government entities, civil society representatives and private sector participants to support the transformation of Mongolia's water sector. Elbegdorj defined the purpose of the alliance by saying<sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> "Managing our future water needs is key to sustaining Mongolia's economic growth. We must ensure fast and effective implementation of our National Water Plan. We will benefit from the international networks and experience of the Water Resources Group to help us do so."<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>President Elbegdorj took part in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), in Paris, France. He delivered remarks at the Conference. Heads of State and Governments of 195 countries, and more than 50 thousand representatives of civil society and private sector have gathered for the Climate Change Conference which will be held in Le Bourget, from 30 November – 11 December 2015. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Smart_Government">Smart Government</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Smart Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj introduced the Smart Government platform at the publicly broadcast event, "From A Big Government To A Smart Government" on 16 November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj defines "smart government" as a combination of skilled people, technological advancements, research, and laws that all add up to creating a new mindset of how government must serve its citizens and enable (and not hinder) private sector development.<sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Smart Government program strives to reduce government involvement in business and economic matters, bolster property rights, modernize legal framework of the country, streamline the bureaucratic process, and combat corruption to further promote long-term sustainable growth in Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shortly after its introduction, the Members of the Parliament of Mongolia expressed their "full and unwavering support of the goal to move to a smart government."<sup id="cite_ref-Hural_253-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hural-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj's Smart Government Program has fifteen key initiatives as follows: </p> <ol><li>Enhance all government systems, policies and operations in conformity with the values of democracy and principles of market economy;</li> <li>Ensure the integrity and cohesion of the state policies and actions;</li> <li>Reform the organization, operations and processes of public service and institute accountability mechanisms at every level of the government;</li> <li>Improve the capacities and efficiency of the public service;</li> <li>Eliminate government participation in business activities;</li> <li>Affirm our full and unwavering support of the goal to make political discourse immune to business influences;</li> <li>Intensify the fight against corruption;</li> <li>Support domestic industries;</li> <li>Ensure economic growth by securing property rights and supporting the private sector;</li> <li>Create government structures based on the rule of law and provide for inclusiveness, producing research-based decisions and services;</li> <li>Instill the discipline to honour/implement contracts;</li> <li>Support direct democracy, sovereignty of local governments and local development funds;</li> <li>Create a long-term national development strategy and codify it by law;</li> <li>Improve the election law;</li> <li>Introduce information technologies to streamline and modernize government.<sup id="cite_ref-Hural_253-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hural-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Supporting_education">Supporting education</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=33" title="Edit section: Supporting education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 20 May 2013, Elbegdorj issued a decree that directed the government to provide financial support to Mongolian students to study at the world's top universities. By the implementation of the decree, Mongolian students accepted at the world's top 20 universities will receive funding from the government regardless of their major, and those accepted at the world's top 100 universities will be financed by the government if their major is included in the government's preferred profession list.<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj vetoed a section of a law amendment that would have increased his salary; in return, he submitted a bill to the Parliament to give allowance as salary from the government to all Mongolian students studying in Mongolia.<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The law was passed and all Mongolian students studying at any university or college in Mongolia have received monthly allowances of 70,000 tugrugs since 2011 and the allowance may be increased to 96,000 tugrugs as per government decision in September 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbegdorj was a member of the board of directors of the "Young Leader" foundation of Mongolia in 1992–2009 and a member of the director's board of the Mongolian Academy of Political Education in 1993–2009.<sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Campaign_to_stop_alcoholism">Campaign to stop alcoholism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=34" title="Edit section: Campaign to stop alcoholism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj has been calling for a curb on the abuse of alcohol in Mongolia. Under his auspices and in collaboration with his office, civil society and non-governmental organizations organized many activities such as the Alcohol-Free Mongolia campaign,<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj banned the use of all alcoholic beverages at state dinners and state ceremonies under his name.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Also he called upon government and its agencies not to serve alcohol at official ceremonies and functions. The World Health Organization awarded Elbegdorj its Regional Director's special recognition plaque. The award honours the public health leadership of a country leader and it is the first award for alcohol control in the Western Pacific Region.<sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Naming_3_millionth_citizen">Naming 3 millionth citizen</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=35" title="Edit section: Naming 3 millionth citizen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Mongolia's population officially reached 3 million with the birth of a baby girl in Umnugobi province in February 2015, President Elbegdorj welcomed the news with a cheer, personally calling the parents to congratulate the new-born citizen. As a symbol of unity and harmony, Elbegdorj requested that the girl be named Mongoljin.<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-presidency">Post-presidency</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=36" title="Edit section: Post-presidency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 23 September 2022, during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> and following the start of the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization" title="2022 Russian mobilization">Russian mobilization</a>, Elbegdorj published a video address in <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>, where he criticised the invasion and urged <a href="/wiki/Russian_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian President">Russian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> to "stop this senseless killing and destruction." He honoured Russians protesting against their government and instructed Russian draftees not to "shoot Ukrainians" and "kill that country". Elbegdorj also claimed that <a href="/wiki/Buryats" title="Buryats">Buryats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuvans" title="Tuvans">Tuvans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kalmyks" title="Kalmyks">Kalmyks</a> are "used as nothing more than cannon fodder", and that Mongolia is ready to shelter refugees fleeing Russia to avoid the military draft. He praised the "brave people" of Ukraine and <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelensky" class="mw-redirect" title="Volodymyr Zelensky">Volodymyr Zelensky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In response to Vladmir Putin's usage of former administrative boundaries as a justification of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Elbegdorj tweeted "After Putin's talk, I found [a] Mongolian historic map", linking maps of modern-day Russia being included in the lands of the Mongol Empire. Included in his tweet was a humorous clarification that Mongolia would not invade Russia, because Mongolia is "a peaceful and free nation."<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 January 2023 in Washington, DC, USA, Elbegdorj participated in setting the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the increased risk of nuclear escalation. The Doomsday Clock's time is set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board and the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors including 10 Nobel Laureates. Elbegdorj said: "Today our world faces multiple crises. A common thread runs through them all: failure of leadership. We need a collective response rooted in the spirit and values of the UN Charter that can put us back on a pathway to peaceful co-existence and sustainable development."<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 31 August 2020, following the <a href="/wiki/2020_Inner_Mongolia_protests" title="2020 Inner Mongolia protests">protests</a> by <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Mongols" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Mongols">Chinese Mongols</a> against the Chinese authorities’ decision to replace their native Mongolian language in some school subjects with Chinese Mandarin in the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_regions_of_China" title="Autonomous regions of China">Chinese autonomous region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a>, Elbegdorj voiced his support in media,<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-270" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and social media and youtube.com.<sup id="cite_ref-271" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and wrote a letter to <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the People&#39;s Republic of China">Chinese President</a> <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since stepping down from the presidency, Elbegdorj has been vocal about Mongolia's future of democracy and a market economy.<sup id="cite_ref-273" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_personal_life">Family and personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=37" title="Edit section: Family and personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elbegdorj met <a href="/wiki/Khajidsuren_Bolormaa" title="Khajidsuren Bolormaa">Khajidsuren Bolormaa</a> at a Mongolian students' party in <a href="/wiki/Lviv" title="Lviv">Lviv</a>, Ukraine when they were students. After their marriage in <a href="/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" title="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</a>, their first son was born in Lviv, Ukraine. They helped over 300 orphans through their Bolor Foundation. They adopted twenty children from the state-run Orphan Care Center (<a href="/wiki/Orphanage" title="Orphanage">orphanage</a>) in Ulaanbaatar after being the children's patrons for some time.<sup id="cite_ref-274" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Now they have twenty-five children: four sons of their own and twenty-one adopted children.<sup id="cite_ref-Ganchimeg_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ganchimeg-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Desai_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Desai-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg/220px-Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg/330px-Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg/440px-Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj_and_Slipenchuk_in_front_of_submersible.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="534" /></a><figcaption>Elbegdorj talking to Anatoly Sagalevich after diving to the bottom of Lake Baikal in a submersible on 16 July 2010</figcaption></figure><p> Elbegdorj became the first president to dive to the bottom of the world's deepest lake, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Baikal" title="Lake Baikal">Baikal</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Mir_(submersible)" title="Mir (submersible)">Mir-1</a> mini-submersible on 16 July 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-275" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-276" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to being president, in 2012 Elbegdorj asked his elder brother Arslandorj to give up his new position as a director of City Landscaping Department of Ulaanbaatar City though Arslandorj had worked there for more than 20 years before his brother's presidency. Long-time Democratic Party member Arslandorj quit his career at his brother's request. Arlsandorj is upset about stopping his professional career due to his brother's top political position. Arslandorj said: "As a brother, I followed to protect and helped Elbegdorj in difficult times, when Elbegdorj was facing life threatening risks during his co-organizing and co-leading the 1990 Mongolian democratic revolution." Arslandorj said that he would establish a private company specialized in his profession in future.<sup id="cite_ref-shudarga_277-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shudarga-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Elbegdorj tweeted his job search in Mongolia for his eldest son Orgil (who had gotten a PhD. in medicinal chemistry from <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Commonwealth_University" title="Virginia Commonwealth University">Virginia Commonwealth University</a> in the United States), the son got a job at a private pharmaceutical company in Mongolia later.<sup id="cite_ref-shudarga_277-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shudarga-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Elbegdorj's second son Erdene works in the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Armed_Forces" title="Mongolian Armed Forces">Mongolian Armed Forces</a> and served in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan from March to November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-278" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors_received_by_Elbegdorj_Tsakhia">Awards and honors received by Elbegdorj Tsakhia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=38" title="Edit section: Awards and honors received by Elbegdorj Tsakhia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country or Institution </th> <th>Award </th> <th>Date </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Environment_Programme" title="United Nations Environment Programme">United Nations Environment Programme</a></b></td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Champions_of_the_Earth" title="Champions of the Earth">Champions of the Earth</a> - Policy Leadership</b><sup id="cite_ref-279" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>2012 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span>&#160;</span>Ukraine</b></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png/60px-Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png/90px-Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png/120px-Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="550" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise" title="Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise">Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise</a></b> (1st class)<sup id="cite_ref-280" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>29 June 2011 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy" title="National Endowment for Democracy">National Endowment for Democracy</a></td> <td>New York Democracy Forum Presidential Medal<sup id="cite_ref-281" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>22 September 2011 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asia_Society" title="Asia Society">Asia Society</a></td> <td>Distinguished Statesmen Award<sup id="cite_ref-282" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>15 June 2011 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honorary_degrees">Honorary degrees</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=39" title="Edit section: Honorary degrees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>School </th> <th>Degree </th> <th>Date </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span>&#160;</span>Ukraine</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hetman_Petro_Sahaidachnyi_National_Ground_Forces_Academy" title="Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy">Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy</a></td> <td>Honorary Doctorate<sup id="cite_ref-283" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>27 June 2011<sup id="cite_ref-284" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span>Mongolia</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_University_of_Science_and_Technology" title="Mongolian University of Science and Technology">Mongolian University of Science and Technology</a></td> <td>Honorary Doctorate<sup id="cite_ref-285" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>10 March 2014 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span>Japan</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ritsumeikan_Asia_Pacific_University" title="Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University">Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University</a></td> <td>Honorary Doctorate<sup id="cite_ref-286" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>22 May 2015 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span>South Korea</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hankuk_University_of_Foreign_Studies" title="Hankuk University of Foreign Studies">Hankuk University of Foreign Studies</a></td> <td>Honorary Doctorate<sup id="cite_ref-287" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-288" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>20 May 2016 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=40" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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&#39;ar&#39; in &#39;war&#39;">ɔːr</span><span title="/dʒ/: &#39;j&#39; in &#39;jam&#39;">dʒ</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;t&#39; in &#39;tie&#39;">t</span><span title="&#39;s&#39; in &#39;sigh&#39;">s</span><span title="/æ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;bad&#39;">æ</span><span title="/x/: &#39;ch&#39; in &#39;loch&#39;">x</span><span title="/i/: &#39;y&#39; in &#39;happy&#39;">i</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">EL</span>-beg-dorj <span style="font-size:90%">TSAKH</span>-ee-ə</i></a>; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox 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Retrieved 23 June 2013.</li> <li>Brooke, James (26 December 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/26/2003216779"><i>Mongolian PM evolves from journalist to statesman</i></a>. <i>Taipei Times</i>. Retrieved 23 June 2013.</li> <li>Brooke, James (15 February 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/international/asia/15mongolia.html?ex=1266210000&amp;en=0130a32542f0b181&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;pagewanted=all"><i>For Mongolians, E Is for English, F Is for Future</i></a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. Retrieved 23 June 2013.</li> <li>Harvard Kennedy School. John F. Kennedy School of Government (24 September 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/alumni/tsakhiagiin-elbegdorj"><i>Mongolian President Discusses Personal Liberty in a Free Country at JFK Jr. Forum</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140106032909/http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/alumni/tsakhiagiin-elbegdorj">Archived</a> 6 January 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>- video of Elbegdorj Tsakhia's speech <i>Harvard Kennedy School</i>. Retrieved 5 January 2014.</li> <li>Tsakhia, Elbegdorj (2000). <i>Footstep of the Truth Is White</i>. Ulaanbaatar: Hiimori. (2000) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/99929-74-01-X" title="Special:BookSources/99929-74-01-X">99929-74-01-X</a></li> <li>Tsakhia, Elbegdorj (2000). <i>The Years of Bearing Weight</i>. Ulaanbaatar: Hiimori.</li> <li>Tsakhia, Elbegdorj (21 November 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/20/AR2005112000840.html"><i>Mongolia: Moving Mountains</i></a>. <i>Washington Post</i>. Retrieved 23 June 2013.</li> <li>Tsakhia, Elbegdorj (6 April 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/06/what_mongolia_can_teach_the_middle_east"><i>What Mongolia Can Teach the Middle East</i></a>. <i>Foreign Policy</i>. Retrieved 23 June 2013.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=44" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Documentary_films">Documentary films</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=45" title="Edit section: Documentary films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Amanpour, Christiane (25 September 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/international/2012/09/25/amanpour-mongolia-tsakhiagiin-elbegdorj.cnn"><i>Fastest growing economy in the world</i></a> CNN. interview with Tsakhia Elbegdorj. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IT1LsHpTyY"><i>Man of the People</i></a> documentary about Elbegdorj and Mongolia's democratic revolution. YouTube. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNKaqEcMw2c"><i>Mongolia - The Democratic Anchor of the East</i></a> Elbegdorj's interview about Mongolia's foreign policy. YouTube. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI4Cv04rKf0"><i>Mongolia - On The Road of Democracy – Regional Co-operation in Asia</i></a> documentary about Mongolia's role in its region by the eyes of international experts and Tsakhia Elbegdorj. March 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Article">Article</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=46" title="Edit section: Article"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Frohm, Stuart (15 September 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=6788"><i>Mongol Khan-Quest. Mongolia to Midland – and back</i></a> article about Elbegdorj. Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Retrieved 1 February 2023.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interviews">Interviews</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=47" title="Edit section: Interviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Evans, Peter &amp; Helen (6 April 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160302221515/http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/evans/040327"><i>Interview with Elbegdorj Tsakhia, the first democratic Prime Minister of Mongolia (Part 1)</i></a>,</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140108175910/http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/evans/040329"><i>(Part 2)</i></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160302210805/http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/evans/040404"><i>(Part 3)</i></a>, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160302215914/http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/evans/040406"><i>(Part 4)</i></a>, Renewamerica.com. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li>Myanmar Television (16 July 2016) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IlnPPdpY8g"><i>MITV News Exclusive Interview with Tsakhia Elbegdorj during his second visit to Myanmar</i></a>. Naypyidaw, Myanmar. Retrieved 1 February 2023.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lectures">Lectures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=48" title="Edit section: Lectures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130709231129/http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/public-address-his-excellency-tsakhiagiin-elbegdorj-president-mongolia"><i>President Elbegdorj's talk at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics</i></a> Cambridge, MA, USA. 21 September 2012. A duplicate video at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV16q2PMZG4">Youtube</a> Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fpa.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/283695_NY_Democracy_Elbegdorj.pdf"><i>Tsakhia Elbegdorj's talk at New York Democracy Forum Dinner</i> (text)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fpa.org/events/index.cfm?act=show_event&amp;event_id=28">announcement</a> Foreign Policy Association. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526200940/http://president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=1333"><i>Elbegdorj: Mongolian transition to democracy and lessons</i></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150924081546/http://www.president.mn/mongolian/sites/default/files/Hungary_lecture.pdf"><i>text</i></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdCrzZGSYN8&amp;list=UUWP5QwG2MYj0GFQI6OvWzuw"><i>video</i></a> Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgTMtgIg5Ic#t=16"><i>Elbegdorj's lecture at North Korea's Kim Il Sung University</i></a> Pyongyang, North Korea. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140805045729/http://www.president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewEvent.php?cid=31&amp;newsEvent=The%20state%20visit%20of%20the%20President%20of%20Mongolia%20Ts.Elbegdorj%20to%20the%20Democratic%20People%E2%80%99s%20Republic%20of%20Korea"><i>Elbegdorj: It is the human desire to live free that is an eternal power</i></a> Pyongyang, North Korea. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBfPNcweCUg"><i>Elbegdorj's talk in Myanmar (Burma) addressing civil servants about democratic values</i></a>, Naypyidaw, Myanmar. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160224104437/http://www.montsame.gov.mn/en/index.php/politics/item/2897-the-president-of-mongolia-gives-lecture-at-yangon-university/2897-the-president-of-mongolia-gives-lecture-at-yangon-university?start=3"><i>Mongolian leader gives lecture at Yangon University</i></a> Montsame News Agency. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speeches">Speeches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj&amp;action=edit&amp;section=49" title="Edit section: Speeches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXRDgeRHxlQ"><i>Mongolia's President Elbegdorj's speech at the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (part 2)</i></a> United Nations. Youtube.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/64/generaldebate/pdf/MN_en.pdf">text</a>. 28 September 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160920224545/http://president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=1953"><i>President Elbegdorj's opening statement at ASEM 11th Summit</i></a> Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6vOPc28XdY"><i>Elbegdorj's talk at the European Parliament</i></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526211433/http://president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=1568"><i>text</i></a> Strausburg, France. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526090716/http://president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=434"><i>Mongolia's President Elbegdorj's address to the National Diet - the Parliament of Japan</i></a> Tokyo, Japan. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160527041250/http://president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=684"><i>President Elbegdorj's speech at the Bundestag</i></a> Berlin, Germany. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526182643/http://president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=690"><i>President Elbegdorj's speech at Jogorku Kenesh - the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan</i></a> Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 3 April 2012, Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUWP5QwG2MYj0GFQI6OvWzuw&amp;v=HpIvYHxVIQU"><i>Elbegdorj:From BIG Government to SMART Government</i></a> Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1l/k1lr9r0tfa"><i>Mongolia's President Elbegdorj at the General debate of the 67th Session of the General Assembly</i></a> United Nations. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160623142613/http://www.president.mn/eng/newsCenter/viewNews.php?newsId=1753"><i>Elbegdorj's speech at the Leaders Event of the 21st Session of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change</i></a>. Paris, France. 30 November 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2023;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121007122155/http://www.unrol.org/files/Statement%20by%20Mongolia.pdf"><i>President Elbegdorj's statement at the United Nations General Assembly's High-Level Meeting on the Rule of Law</i></a> United Nations. 24 September 2012. 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href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Mongolia" title="List of prime ministers of Mongolia">List</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Flag_of_Bogd_Khaanate_Mongolia.svg/12px-Flag_of_Bogd_Khaanate_Mongolia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Flag_of_Bogd_Khaanate_Mongolia.svg/19px-Flag_of_Bogd_Khaanate_Mongolia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Flag_of_Bogd_Khaanate_Mongolia.svg/24px-Flag_of_Bogd_Khaanate_Mongolia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1320" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Bogd_Khanate_of_Mongolia" title="Bogd Khanate of Mongolia">Bogd Khanate of Mongolia</a><br />(1911–1924)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%B6gs-Ochiryn_Namnans%C3%BCren" title="Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren">Namnansüren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonchigjalzangiin_Badamdorj" title="Gonchigjalzangiin Badamdorj">Badamdorj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalkhanz_Khutagt_Sodnomyn_Damdinbazar" title="Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar">Damdinbazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manzushir_Khutagt_Sambadondogiin_Tserendorj" title="Manzushir Khutagt Sambadondogiin Tserendorj">S. Tserendorj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogsomyn_Bodoo" title="Dogsomyn Bodoo">Bodoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalkhanz_Khutagt_Sodnomyn_Damdinbazar" title="Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar">Damdinbazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balingiin_Tserendorj" title="Balingiin Tserendorj">B. 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