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MongoliaInternational Organizations
Mongolia became a member of the UN in October 1961. It had
permanent delegations resident in New York and in Geneva,
Switzerland, and was active in the UN Education, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization, as well as these groups: the World Health
Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the
Industrial Development Organization, the International Atomic
Energy Agency, the Disarmament Commission, the World Intellectual
Property Organization, and the World Meteorological Organization.
In 1989 Mongolia also belonged to the Economic Council for
Asia and the Far East, the Interparliamentary Union, the World
Peace Council, the International Labour Organization, the World
Federation of Trade Unions, the International Telecommunications
Union, the Universal Postal Union, the International Association
for Mongol Studies, and the International Red Cross. Mongolia was
a member of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
headquartered in Moscow, and the Organization for the
Collaboration of Railways, located at Warsaw, Poland.
In June 1962, Mongolia joined Comecon, an economic
association binding the economies of the communist states of
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Mongolia and Vietnam were
the only Asian states in that association. Afghanistan sent only
observers to Comecon meetings. Mongolia participated fully in all
Comecon commissions that related to its own economy, and its
Eighth Five-Year Plan (1986-90) was adopted only after it was
harmonized fully with the economic plans of the other member
states
(see Socialist Framework of the Economy
, ch. 3).
Data as of June 1989
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