Mongolia or locally Mongol Uls.
Formerly Outer Mongolia.
Capital: Ulaanbaatar
February temperatures range from
10 to -20 degrees farenheit in Ulan Battor but
there is no precipitation.
Ulan_Bator
Mongolia Climate Page from OnlineWeather.Com
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.
For all Mongolia phone numbers,
the country code is "976", and the
Ulaanbaatar area code is "1"
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
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.
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.
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
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
Johnson, Donald C. (1949- )
Foreign Service officer 1993 Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mongolia Chiefs
of Mission Index I-L
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.
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
Language and religion:
Halh or Khalkha Mongolian
- 90 % was Lamaist Buddhist, now largely
atheist.
Kazakh - about 4 % was
Moslem now mostly atheist.
Uighur, Chinese, Russian,
and various non Halh Mongols make up the
rest of the population. Ethnologue:
Mongolia
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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