Editing Mongolia (section)

=== Military ===
{{main|Mongolian Armed Forces}}
[[File:Vostok-2018 military manoeuvres (2018-09-13) 51.jpg|thumb|Mongolian, Chinese and Russian national flags set on armored vehicles during the large-scale military exercise [[Vostok 2018]] in Eastern Siberia]]

Mongolia supported the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], and has sent several successive contingents of 103 to 180 troops each to [[Iraq]]. About 130 troops were deployed to [[Afghanistan]]. 200 Mongolian troops are serving in [[Sierra Leone]] on a UN mandate to protect the UN's [[Special Court for Sierra Leone|special court]] set up there, and in July 2009, Mongolia decided to send a battalion to [[Chad]] in support of [[MINURCAT]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ban Ki-Moon on press conference in Ulaanbaatar, July 27th, 2009 |url=http://www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=1312 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110503184917/http://www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=1312 |archive-date=May 3, 2011 |access-date=2010-05-02 |publisher=Un.org |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

From 2005 to 2006, about 40 troops were deployed with the Belgian and Luxembourg contingents in [[Kosovo]]. On 21 November 2005, [[George W. Bush]] became the first-ever sitting U.S. president to visit Mongolia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=President George W. Bush Visits Mongolia |url=http://mongolia.usembassy.gov/potus_visit.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229154823/http://mongolia.usembassy.gov/potus_visit.html |archive-date=February 29, 2008 |access-date=2013-06-30 |publisher=US embassy in Mongolia, 2005}}</ref> In 2004, under Bulgarian chairmanship, the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE) invited Mongolia as its newest Asian partner.