Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei
Representative office in Taiwan
The Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei is Mongolia's representative office in Taiwan, functioning as a de facto embassy in the absence of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and the Republic of China on Taiwan. It was established in December 2003, after Taiwan re-recognised Mongolia's independence on 3 October 2002 (The China Post, 18 July 2005, via Wikipedia).
Ulaanbaatar and Taipei established a sister-city relationship in 1997 and subsequently opened representative offices in Ulaanbaatar in 2002 and in Taipei in 2003, opening a new chapter in bilateral cooperation (Representative Zolzaya Lkhagvasuren, speech at the office's 20th anniversary, reported by the Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, 31 October 2023).
PEOPLE
Zolzaya Lkhagvasuren
Representative - named as Representative hosting the office's 20th anniversary reception on 31 October 2023 (Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, 31 October 2023) and in a meeting with Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an on 24 July 2023 (Taipei City Government); also named as Representative on a visit to the Veterans Affairs Council on 21 September 2020 (Veterans Affairs Council, 22 September 2020). The current holder after 2023 is not yet established - research in progress
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Elbeg Samdan
Representative (earlier) - named as Head of the Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei on visits to Taiwan's National Central Library on 24 June 2013 and 9 July 2015 (National Central Library, Taiwan)
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RECORD
Establishment in December 2003 - DOCUMENTED
Taiwan re-recognised Mongolia's independence on 3 October 2002 and the Ulaanbaatar representative office in Taipei was established in December 2003. Its counterpart is the Taipei Trade and Economic Representative Office in Ulaanbaatar; the Taiwan External Trade Development Council had previously established a Taiwan Trade Center in June 2002 (The China Post, 18 July 2005, via Wikipedia).
Sister cities and the 20th anniversary - 31 October 2023 - DOCUMENTED
At the Proclamation Day of Mongolia and 20th Anniversary reception in Taipei on 31 October 2023, hosted by Representative Zolzaya Lkhagvasuren, he said Ulaanbaatar and Taipei established a sister-city relationship in 1997 and then established representative offices in Ulaanbaatar in 2002 and Taipei in 2003. He noted the Mongolian government had declared 2023 to 2025 the Years to Visit Mongolia and that, as of the third quarter of 2023, Taiwan was the second largest source of tourists applying for visas to travel to Mongolia (Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, 31 October 2023).
Taipei City Hall meeting - 24 July 2023 - DOCUMENTED
On 24 July 2023 Representative Zolzaya Lkhagvasuren and Deputy Representative Altandush Ulziibat visited Taipei City Hall to meet Mayor Wan-An Chiang to discuss tourism, sister-city relations and city administration. Mayor Chiang noted 2023 was the 26th anniversary of the sister-city relationship and the 20th anniversary of the Taipei office's establishment (Taipei City Government, Secretariat).
Health cooperation role - 2005 - DOCUMENTED
The Memorandum of Understanding on health cooperation between Taiwan's Department of Health and Mongolia's Ministry of Health, signed 17 March 2005, designates the Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei as Mongolia's representative agency to administer the MOU, including annual meetings and exchanges on communicable and non-communicable diseases (Ministry of Justice, Republic of China (Taiwan), Laws and Regulations Database).
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