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Russia pledges to invest $600mn in joint gold refinery in Kyrgyzstan www.rt.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken part in the opening ceremony of a gold processing plant at the Jerooy mine in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. The project was developed by Russia’s Alliance Group in cooperation with VTB bank.
“The Talassky mining complex is one of the largest joint projects that has been successfully implemented,” Putin said via video link, describing the project as vital for relations between the neighboring states.
According to the president, the project in the Central Asian country will see “record volumes” of investment totaling $600 million.
“The latest technologies and equipment deployed in the project comply with environmental regulation,” Putin said. “This will enable the enterprise to produce up to five tons of gold per year efficiently, without harm to the environment.”
The former Soviet republic has been trying to develop its second-largest gold deposit since the 1990s. Cooperation with American, Canadian, British and Austrian investors failed to materialize.
Russian companies won the contract back in 2015. By launching the construction of the refinery, Alliance Group accelerated the development of the Jerooy mining project, which reportedly holds around 90 tons of gold and 25 tons of silver.
The refining plant was expected to start operating last year, but was attacked during unrest preceding the emergence of current president Sadyr Japarov. The attack reportedly caused more than $10 million in losses for the Russian firms.
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Fitch upgrades China’s growth rate due to strong export recovery & global demand www.rt.com

Ratings agency Fitch revised China’s GDP growth rate projection from 8% to 8.4% on Thursday, citing strong export recovery and global demand.
The country’s economic rebound to 6.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020 was described as “a remarkable achievement in the context of the pandemic.” Fitch said it reflected China’s success in containing the virus, as well as strong investment growth and a boost to net trade as exports rebounded very rapidly from mid-year and services imports collapsed.
China is the only major economy that is starting to normalize macroeconomic policy settings, where the fiscal deficit is being scaled back and credit growth is slowing as the economic recovery matures, said Fitch’s chief economist, Brian Coulton.
The agency has also updated its forecast on the global GDP growth – from 5.3% in its December’s projection to 6.1%. It said the main driver of the global forecast revision was the much larger than expected fiscal stimulus package recently passed in the United States.
The $1.9 trillion stimulus represents more than 2.5% of global GDP, according to Coulton. “The pandemic is not over, but it is starting to look like we have entered the final phase of the economic crisis,” he said.
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China says ready to enhance military exchanges, cooperation with Mongolia www.news.cgtn.com

Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Tuesday called for joint efforts to push forward military exchanges and cooperation between China and Mongolia in a phone call with his Mongolian counterpart Gursed Saikhanbayar.
During the conversation, Wei noted China's successful conclusion of the Two Sessions, and the approval of the the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035.
As China embarks on a new journey to fully building a modern socialist country, the Chinese defense minister said that China is ready to work with Mongolia to implement the important consensuses reached between leaders of the two countries to step up bilateral military exchanges and to jointly defend regional peace and stability.
Saikhanbayar, for his part, spoke highly of the achievements China has made in national development and its fight against COVID-19.
Stressing that Mongolia is willing to enhance mutual trust and cooperation with China, the Mongolian defense minister said he is ready to push forward bilateral military relations to a higher level.
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Mongolia registers 127 new COVID-19Mongolia registers 127 new COVID-19 cases www.xhinhuanet.com

March 16 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia registered 127 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 4,210, the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Tuesday.
Of the latest cases, 126 were detected in the country's capital, the country's hardest hit region, and another one was reported in the central-western province of Arkhangai, the NCCD said in a statement.
Meanwhile, 52 more patients have recovered from the disease, taking the nationwide tally to 3,083, the center added.
The Asian country has recorded eight COVID-19-related deaths so far.
The country launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign across the country on Feb. 23, with the aim of vaccinating at least 60 percent of its 3.3 million people.
A total of 126,449 people have been vaccinated against the virus so far, according to the country's health ministry.
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Mongolia-U.S strategic partnership reaffirmed www.montsame.com

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs N. Ankhbayar held a telephone conversation with Counselor of the U.S. Department of State Derek H. Chollet on March 16, 2021.
The two sides expressed satisfaction with the actively developing Mongolia- U.S. relations and cooperation in line with the concept of the Strategic Partnership, and reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening this close relationship. They noted the successful implementation of the measures agreed during the bilateral consultation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and the U.S. Department of State in 2020, and agreed to conduct the planned visits, meetings and activities as soon as the pandemic situation improves.
Expressing appreciation to the United States for its support to Mongolia's efforts to curb the pandemic, Mr. Ankhbayar informed that the Government is accelerating its vaccination campaign and would receive the Pfizer vaccine soon through the COVAX Facility. He expressed willingness to cooperate with the U.S. in this field even further and also stressed the importance of expanding economic cooperation between the two countries, especially trade and investment.
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Gross industrial output reaches MNT1.5 trillion in February www.montsame.mn

According to the preliminary results, in the first 2 months of 2021, the gross industrial output reached MNT 3.1 trillion, increased by MNT 845.2 billion (38.3%) from the same period of previous year. It was mainly due to MNT 696.2 billion (49.1%) increase in the mining and quarrying gross output and MNT 125.4 billion (24.5%) increase in the manufacturing output. Also, the electricity, thermal energy and water supply production output increased by MNT 21.3 billion (8.2%) and the water supply, and sewerage, waste management, and remediation activities production output increased by MNT 2.4 billion (11.3%) from the same period of year.
In February 2021, the gross industrial output reached MNT 1.5 trillion, decreased by MNT 107.3 billion (6.8%) from the previous month. This decrease was mainly due to MNT 58.3 billion (5.4%) decrease in mining and quarrying gross output. In February 2021, the mining and quarrying gross output reached MNT 1.0 trillion, increased by MNT 371.0 billion (56.5%) from the same period of previous year. This increase was mainly due to increases in the mining of metal ores by 142.3 billion (54.2%), extraction of crude petroleum by MNT 62.8 billion (9.5 times) and the mining of metal ores by MNT 165.6 billion (44.8%) from same period of the previous year.
By the preliminary results of the first 2 months of 2021, the mining and quarrying sector, extraction of copper concentrate, brown coal, gold, fluorspar, hard coal and crude oil increased by 4.8 percent to 2.4 times compared to the same period of previous year. In the manufacturing sector, production of spirit, wheat flour, alcoholic beverage, milk, combed cashmere, meat, coal briquette, concentrated coal and face covering increased by 4.9 percent to 5.0 times compared to the same period of previous year.
However, in the mining and quarrying sector, extractions of iron ore decreased by 1.3%. In the manufacturing sector, productions of copper cathode, lime, water, soft drink, juice, sanitizer, cashmere products and metal steel decreased by 8.2-99.4% compared to the same period of previous year.
According to the preliminary results of the first 2 months of 2021, the sales of industrial output reached MNT 4.1 trillion, increased by MNT 1.9 billion (86.8%) compared to the same period of previous year. This increase was mainly resulted from MNT 1.8 billion (2.5 times) increase in sales of mining and quarrying output.
In the total sales of industrial output, MNT 2.9 trillion (70.6%) was export, of which MNT 2.6 trillion (92.1%) was export of mining and quarrying output. In the total of MNT 2.6 trillion export of mining and quarrying output, 57.6% was metal ores, 35.9% was coal and lignite, 5.2% was crude petroleum, 1.3% was other mining and quarrying output.
In February 2020, the seasonally adjusted industrial production index was 129.8 (2015=100), increased by 28.8 percent from the same period of previous year and by 1.5% from the end of previous year, while it was decreased by 4.8 percent from the previous month.
Source: National Statistics Office
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‘Veins of the World’ wins Grand Prize in Geneva www.news.mn

The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva handed out several awards on Sunday to films that not only push cinematic boundaries but bring to light stories of youth struggles and injustice.
The Grand Prize winner in the fiction and human rights category was “Veins of the World” by Mongolian filmmaker D.Byambasuren. Through the story of a nomadic Mongolian boy and his family, the film brings to light themes of the forced displacement of nomads, water pollution, gold mining and child labour. In a press release, the jury praised the film for its “delicate layering of social and cinematic elements”. The film also won the Youth Jury award in the fiction category.
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Gazprom significantly boosts natural gas supplies abroad in 2021 www.rt.com

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Russia's pipeline project across Mongolia is picking up steam www.mongoliaweekly.org

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Doctor Who: India's Soft Power Vaccine Diplomacy www.mongoliaweekly.org

That was the theme in India during the first months of 2021, alluding to the farmers' protest in the capital and India’s vaccination drive and the race to vaccinate millions of citizens.
At a time of closed borders and mandatory quarantine, when survival skills bring out an internal sense of selfishness, and global cooperation around sharing scant resources of the vaccine is unheard of, India has adopted a different approach.
But at a time of social distancing globally, India has been active in its outreach exporting vaccines across the globe. While Doctor WHO (World Health Organization) has faced censure for being slow in its pandemic response and now in its vaccine distribution, India has stepped up on the vaccine distribution front to several countries, including Mongolia, to mitigate some of the delays by the WHO.
This is an approach; one where soft power meets concerted diplomatic outreach with India’s vaccine diplomacy.
Dubbed ‘Vaccine Maitri’ or Vaccine Friendship, India has shipped hundreds of vials of Indian-made Covishield vaccines to 71 countries so far. The vaccine is manufactured under licence from Oxford University and British-Swedish Pharma giant, AstraZeneca, but manufactured locally by Pune-based Serum Institute of India.
India donated 13 boxes (150k doses) of the COVID-19 vaccine to Mongolia, making it one of the first 25 countries to receive the vaccine from India. During the donation ceremony, Ambassador of India to Mongolia M P Singh noted the importance of Mongolia for India’s Act East policy as a strategic partner and ‘spiritual neighbour.’
Indian Ambassador to Mongolia Singh and Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan (montsame.mn)Indian Ambassador to Mongolia Singh and Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan (montsame.mn)
Indian Ambassador to Mongolia Singh and Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan (montsame.mn)
So why vaccine diplomacy?
For starters, India is a vaccine powerhouse and produces 60 percent of the world's vaccines and is home to half a dozen major manufacturers. Even prior to the vaccine, India was among the first to supply 100 countries, including the United States, the most infected country at the moment, with the hydroxychloroquine and the paracetamol drug. In addition to this, India has sent pharmaceuticals, test kits and other PPE equipment to around 90 countries.
As Indian Member of Parliament and former UN Diplomat, Shashi Tharoor writes, “in developing vaccines for its own use, the global north overlooked the prohibitive cost of vaccines for poorer countries. Indian-made vaccines, on the other hand, are reportedly safe and cost-effective, and—unlike some others—don’t require storage and transport at very low temperatures”.
Apart from global diligence and a certain sense of altruism, there is the geopolitical merit of India’s soft power combined with its medical and scientific prowess that has been accentuated.
The elephant in the room is the dragon - China.
Furthermore, when it comes to supply chains, that has been synonymous with China. The recent border skirmish for India with China has only exacerbated the rivalry, one where India has been able to leverage its reputation for providing cheap, accessible vaccines to the global south in a safe and efficient manner.
When it comes to China, there is also the Quad, the joint pact between India, United States, Japan and Australia. What started off as naval maritime exercises and a key part of the US’ Indo-Pacific strategy is also playing a part in India’s vaccine diplomacy.
In addition to Covaxin and Covishied, reports claim that India would manufacture the single dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine with financing from the US and Japan, while Australia would be involved in shipping it to Southeast Asia and Pacific countries.
As the Quad has increasingly focused on Beijing’s bellicosity in the South China Sea, India has urged the other three members of the Quad to invest in its vaccine production capacity in an attempt to counter Beijing’s widening vaccine diplomacy.
It was noteworthy how China raced to deliver Sinopharm vaccines to its immediate neighbor Mongolia the day after India’s delivery (February 22) and doubled its donation (300k doses) than that of India.
During March last year, when the world was getting acquainted with the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains in China were being disrupted with the global lockdown. Disrupted supply chains in China disrupted meant disrupted supply chains around the world. It was too much for several countries, that realized that they needed a manufacturing alternative, a way to buy supply chain insurance in order to hedge their bets. India has used its pharma manufacturing capacity and global outreach to answer the “if not China, then WHO” question when it comes to the vaccine rollout.
However, there are some concerning critiques. Particularly given that the country has a large burgeoning population of a billion-plus, India has exported more overseas than administered for its own citizens, and hence India may fall short of its own target of vaccinating 300 million of its own citizens (the rough population of the United States) by August this year.
But India sees it differently. As I wrote last year, “this pandemic been unprecedented on so many levels, from Melbourne to Madrid, Seoul to Seattle, Tehran to Tuscany, seldom has the world been confronted with the same geopolitical, economic, national security and health conundrum that the COVID-19 disease has presented."
India, a country that has long been criticized for being too protectionist about its own economy, making it harder for companies to enter the market and exhibiting trepidations on trade deals for this protectionism of its own domestic industries, has eschewed any sense of nationalism and protectionism on the vaccine distribution front and has come to the “First Aid” of many, including Mongolia, which aims to vaccinate its all adult population by this summer.
Akshobh Giridharadas (@Akshboh) is a director of the strategic advisory firm BowerGroupAsia and a former broadcast journalist based in Washington.
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