20th Anniversary Year of Mongolia-U.S. Diplomatic Relations
January 27, 2007-January 26, 2008

Visits

• President Enkhbayar Visited the United States and Participated in a Summit Meeting with President Bush, October 2007

• Mongolian Parliamentary Group Visited the United States as part of the House
  Democracy Assistance Commission program, December 2007

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney Visited Mongolia, December 2007
• Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Keating, Visited Mongolian Troops in Iraq,   November 2007
• 16 General Officers Visited Mongolia for the Capstone Pacific Field Study, October 2007
• Senior Coordinator Mark Taylor of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Visited Mongolia, September 2007
• Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Keating Visited Mongolia, August 2007
• U.S. Department of Energy Team Visited Mongolia, August 2007
• Senior Professional Staff Member to Senator Richard Lugar on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Visited Mongolia, August 2007
• House Democracy Assistance Commission Visited Mongolia, July 2007
• Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill Visited Mongolia, June 2007
• Ambassador Lawrence Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and Mr. Peter McVety, Director of Coalition Affairs for Iraq and Afghanistan, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense Visited Mongolia, July 2007
• U.S. Peace Corps Director Ronald A. Tschetter Visited Mongolia, April 2007
• Managing Director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for Europe, Asia and the Pacific Visited Mongolia, January 2007
• Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Christensen Visited Mongolia, January 2007

MCC

• $285 million Grant To Create Economic Growth in Mongolia Approved

Agreements and Bilateral Meetings

• MOU to Increase Cooperation in Preventing Nuclear Smuggling, October 2007
• Proliferation Security Initiative Shipboarding Agreement, October 2007 
• Joint Declaration of Principles, October 2007
• U.S. Senate Resolution Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Mongolia-U.S. Diplomatic Relations, October 2007
• Trade and Investment Framework Agreement talks, February 2007
• Comprehensive Bilateral, Regional, Global Issues bilateral talks, January 2007

Other Economic Assistance

• $6,595,435 in USAID Grants to promote good governance and good economic policies, September 2007
• $500,000 U.S. Trade and Development Agency Grant to Eznis Airways, July 2007
• USAID technology project to connect rural Mongolia to outside world by deploying voice over internet communications to herder communities in remote areas, June 2007

Defense Cooperation

• US-Mongolia Medical Exchange Exercise, September 2007
• Mongolia and U.S. Co-sponsor Multinational Peacekeeping Training, KHAAN QUEST, July-August 2007
• Command Post Multinational Exercise, August 2007USARPAC Humanitarian Civic Activity, July–August 2007
• Non-Lethal Weapons Seminar, September 2007
• Defense Institute Security Assistance Management Mobile Training Team, November 2007
• Marshal Center visit and Alumni Workshop, July 2007
• $500,000 Project to renovate Five Hills Peacekeeping Training Center, March 2007

Education

• “Books in a Box” Seminar provided English Teaching Materials and Training to 50 secondary school English teachers representing all of the Mongolia provinces, November 2007
• First Mongolian Fulbright Science and Technology Scholarship Winner Selected
• Nationwide English Language Teachers Conference Sponsored by U.S. Embassy, May 2007
• American Corner Established in Khovd Aimag Public Library, March 2007

Culture

• Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation grant provided $30,000 for oral history and mapping project documenting monasteries destroyed during the socialist period
• U.S. Embassy Co-sponsored Jazz Programs by American Jazz Pianist and Vocalist Bob Bellows, September 2007
• “Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian” Photo Exhibit Shown in Erdenet and Ulaanbaatar, August 2007
• “Pacific Brass,” U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific-Asia, Visited Schools and Performed in Ulaanbaatar, Erdenet, Darkhan, and Zuun Mod, June-July 2007
• First American Hip Hop Group to visit Mongolia, “Opus Akoben,” Met Music Students and Performed in Darkhan and Ulaanbaatar, June 2007
• U.S. Embassy Co-sponsored Jazz Concert by Bayan Mongol Jazz Orchestra, March 2007