Very well, thank you very much to all those who have taken the floor. Before moving on, I wish to
make clear that this is a platform for open dialogue. This is what this forum is intended for. We need to
engage in constructive dialogue. All participants regardless of who they are representing need to be
respectful to other participants, all other participants, and to limit themselves to the topics to which this
forum is set up. Bearing in mind this point which I must stress once again to the Southern Mongolian
Human Rights Information Center, but only will I allow them to conclude within the minute remaining. If
that organization restricts itself to the topic that has been previously set up for the discussion at this
forum that all respect be shown to both member states and all other participants. On that basis, for one
minute you have the floor to conclude your statement provided that you have adopted this procedures
and grand rules. Thank you, you have the floor.
Enghebatu Togochg:
Thank you for allowing me to continue my statement. The Mongolians who maintained their pastoralist
way of life for thousands of years are now forced by the Chinese authorities to give up their traditional
life-style and move to agricultural and urban areas to give way to expanding Chinese encroachment. As
a result of unregulated mining, resource extraction and uncontrolled agricultural practices by the
Chinese, Mongolian grassland ecosystem has seriously been destroyed; lakes and rivers are dried up;
underground water is depleted; air and water is heavily polluted; the Mongolians herders who have been
kicked out of their land have become landless and homeless on their ancestral land.
The second issue I would like to raise to the Forum is the extrajudicial detention of Mongolian dissidents
and activists. Mr. Hada, who demanded “genuine autonomy” in accordance with Chinese laws, is still
being held under a form of house arrest after completing a 15-year imprisonment and 4-year
extrajudicial detention.
We urge the Chinese government to respect basic human rights and the fundamental freedoms of the
Mongolian people in accordance with United Nations conventions and universally accepted human
rights standards.
Thank you.