Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia did not receive food aid from Kazakhstan
VideoRecently, a video of the president of Kazakhstan NursultanNazarbaev talking about a regular food aid to Mongolia raised some revolt in the social media environment and discontented the Mongolian public.
MONTSAME Agency clarified this issue from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A ministry official says the foreign ministry requested a formal explanation to the President’s video from the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Ulaanbaatar, to which tche Embassy responded “This video was shot almost 20 years ago. We are concerned that such a publicizing of this video as though it has been made recently might impact negatively on our two countries’ relations”.
In 1999, NursultanNazarbaev, while paying a visit to Mongolia, observed the decline in Mongolia’s annual harvest of that year and made an offer of aid of 5000 tons of grains for Bayan-Olgii province, where Mongolian Kazakh minorities settle. Mongolian side accepted the offer and handed in the aid to Bayan-Olgii province. Mongolia has not taken any type of food aid since then.
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