이웃 국가들을 통해 출해구(出海口)를 확보하고자 하는 몽골의 이해관계와 몽골-러시아 연해주 협력

Mongolia’s Interest to Gain an Access to the Ocean through Its Neighbouring Countries and Cooperation between Mongolia and Primorsky Krai of Russia: A Study Focusing on the Development Policy, Discussion, Negotiation and Agreement

This paper aims at reviewing how Mongolia and Primorsky Krai of Russia cooperate within the scope of the Mongolia’s interest to gain an access to the ocean through development policies of Mongolia and discussions, negotiations and agreements made between the Mongolian and Russian governments. As a result of the study, the paper finds that Mongolia’s interest to gain an access to the ocean is that to reduce negative impact of the Mongolia’s disadvantage not having a direct access to the ocean, to ensure economic security and to export minerals to the world market; and within the scope of such an interest, it has been taking multi-faceted measures such as developing measures related to gaining an access to the ocean, having discussions, negotiations and agreements with the Russian government on cooperating with Primorsky Krai as well as planning and implementing projects which Primorsky Krai is involved in, and an actual cooperation of Mongolia with Primorsky Krai is being made on the coal transportation.