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Mongolia or locally Mongol Uls.
Formerly Outer Mongolia.
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Capital: Ulaanbaatar
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February temperatures range from
10 to -20 degrees farenheit in Ulan Battor but there is no
precipitation.
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Ulan_Bator
Mongolia Climate Page from OnlineWeather.Com
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Ambasador John Dinger.
The U.S. Embassy in Mongolia
P.O. Box 1021
Ulaanbaatar-13
MONGOLIA
Phone 976-1-329095 or fax at 976-1-320776.
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For all Mongolia phone numbers,
the country code is "976", and the Ulaanbaatar area code is "1"
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release February 8, 2000
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES JOHN R. DINGER AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MONGOLIA
The President announced today his intent to nominate John R. Dinger to
be U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia.
Mr. John R. Dinger, of Orlando, Florida, is a Career Member of the
Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor. He has been Minister
Counselor and Consul General in the American Embassy in Tokyo since
September 1998. Prior to Tokyo, Mr. Dinger was a member of the
Department of State's Senior Seminar. His other positions included
Director of the State Department's Office of Press Relations, Deputy
Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs, and National Security
Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Earlier in his
25-year State Department career, Mr. Dinger served overseas in
Johannesburg, Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Rio de Janeiro, and London.
A native of Riceville, Iowa, Mr. Dinger graduated from the University
of Northern Iowa in 1974. He has done advanced study at Georgetown
University and Stanford University.
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John R. Dinger
U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. John R. Dinger of Florida is the new U.S.
Ambassador to Mongolia. Mr. Dinger is a career member of the Senior
Foreign Service, Class of Counselor. He has been minister counselor and
consul general in the American Embassy in Tokyo since September 1998.
Earlier, Mr. Dinger was director of the State Department's Office of
Press Relations and deputy director of the Office of Japanese Affairs.
He has served in Johannesburg, Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Rio de Janeiro
and London. Mr. Dinger and his wife, Michie, have one child. State
Magazine September 2000.
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U.S.-MONGOLIAN RELATIONS
The U.S. Government recognized Mongolia in January 1987, and
established its first embassy in Ulaanbaatar in June 1988. It formally
opened in September 1988. The first U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia,
Richard L. Williams, was not resident there; Joseph E. Lake, the first
resident Ambassador, arrived in July 1990, and will be succeeded by
Donald Johnson. Background
Notes: Mongolia
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According to the American
Ambassador to Mongolia, Donald C. Johnson, the meteorological station
is providing the Mongolian National Emergency Commission with
day-to-day reports on the fires' progress throughout the country. The
near real-time information has allowed the commission to warn
inhabitants, especially those with large herds, to move out of the pats
of flames to safety.
Ambassador Johnson said that the Mongolian station employees rise each
day at 2 or 3 A.M. to catch the first pass of the NOAA satellite. They
then prepare a comprehensive report for the emergency commission
pinpointing the location of fires, tracking the movement and giving
early warning to government officials.
NASA provided the satellite receiving station to Mongolia through a
Memorandum of Understanding agreement. In June 1995, Goddard hardware
engineer Patrick Coronado and software engineers Gene Shaffer and Allan
Lunsford, all of the Space Data and Computing Division in the Earth
Sciences Directorate, installed a new antenna, image processing system,
and other equipment at the receiving station. In December, NASA and
Mongolia extended the Memorandum of Understanding for an additional 5
years.
Ambassador Johnson, in a letter to NASA Administrator Dan Goldin,
praised the work of Tucker and his associates and said, "I have made
improved science cooperation with Mongolia one of the top priorities
during my service here as ambassador. Contributions such as the NASA
provided station have enabled us to strengthen this bilateral
cooperation in ways that are tangible and clearly understood by the
'average citizen.'"July
1996 AMS Newsletter
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Johnson, Donald C. (1949- )
Foreign Service officer 1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary, Mongolia Chiefs
of Mission Index I-L
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release June 24, 1992
PRESIDENT NAMES JOHNSON AMBASSADOR TO MONGOLIA
(Washington, DC) President Clinton today announced his intention to
nominate Donald Johnson, a career member of the Foreign Service, to be
Ambassador to Mongolia.
"Donald Johnson has served our country with distinction for almost two
decades in the Foreign Service," said the President. "I am pleased to
he will be taking this ambassadorial post."
Johnson, a native of Richmond, CA, spent much of his childhood in
Mexico, where his parents served as missionaries. He graduated from
Lewis and Clark College in 1970, received a law degree in 1974 from the
same institution, and has additional academic degrees from the
University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Master of Public
Administration and The George Washington University, where he received
a LL.M. in Corporation Law. He joined the Foreign Service in 1974 and
has had assignments of increasing responsibility in Guatemala, the
former USSR, China, Spain, Honduras, and the Department of State. From
1990-91, he was on detail to the National Security Council at the White
House. He is married to Nelda Sabillon Johnson, and is 43 years old.
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Administrative divisions: 18
provinces (aymguud, singular - aymag) and 3 municipalities* (hotuud,
singular - hot); Arhangay, Bayanhongor, Bayan-Olgiy, Bulgan, Darhan*,
Dornod, Dornogovi, Dundgovi, Dzavhan, Erdenet*, Govi-Altay, Hentiy,
Hovd, Hovsgol, Omnogovi, Ovorhangay, Selenge, Suhbaatar, Tov,
Ulaanbaatar*, Uvs CIA
-- The World Factbook 2000 -- Mongolia
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Language and religion:
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Halh or Khalkha Mongolian -
90 % was Lamaist Buddhist, now largely atheist.
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Kazakh - about 4 % was
Moslem now mostly atheist.
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Uighur, Chinese, Russian,
and various non Halh Mongols make up the rest of the population. Ethnologue:
Mongolia
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Diplomatic representation in the
US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Jalbuugiyn Choinhor
chancery: 2833 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
telephone: [1] (202) 333-7117 FAX: [1] (202) 298-9227
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