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The political scene is set to remain volatile. The government will continue to struggle to assert its legitimacy, and tensions could rise within toe Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP)-led coalition. Real GDP will grow by 5-6% a year in 2006-07, largely driven by continued inflows of foreign direct investment into the mining sector. Global prices for Mongolia's key exports of gold and copper will, however, ease. Continued high global oil prices could translate into volatility in consumer price inflation, but the overall inflationary pressures. Poverty reduction will remain a policy priority. Civic groups demonstrated in the centre of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, in April protesting at what they see as the government's overgenerous treatment of foreign investors. The prime minister, Miyegombyn Enkhbold, visited Japan in April, his first foreign trip since taking office in January. Russia's foreign affairs minister, Sergei Lavrov, visited Mongolia in March. The government has affirmed that it will maintain friendly relations with China. In the first two months of 2006 the general budget was in surplus to the tune of Tg23bn (US$19m), an outturn that compared favourably with the Tg4bn recorded in the same period of 2005. In late March the Japanese government announced an aid package worth ￥3bn (US$27m) to provide finance for smaller companies and to alleviate environmental pollution. In late April the government signed a deal for a US real-estate company, Winwheel Bullion, to develop a leisure and gambling complex on the Chinese border. Continued rapid loan growth suggested that confidence in the economy remained high in early 2006. However, the textile sector continued to perform poorly, and the high stock of non-performing loans suggests a high degree of vulnerability to economic shocks and lax credit screening by the banks. Consumer price inflation decelerated in January and February in year-on-year terms, party reflecting an easing of food price inflation. The agricultural sector was hit by renewed outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in early 2006. Mongolia's exports continued to perform well in the first two months of 2006, with revenue rising by 40% year on year to US$127.6m. The main driver here was demand from China, which increased its share of total exports to 63% in the first two months of the year, up from 52% in the same period of 2005.

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한국과 몽골은 90.3.23 수교이후 16년여의 짧은 기간에도 불구, 정치ㆍ경제ㆍ상호보완성을 바탕으로 경제ㆍ통상ㆍ투자 등 실질 협 력관계를 증진시켜 옴으로써, 각 방면에서의 관계가 전반적으로 양국의 이익에 부합되는 방 향으로 발 전을 해왔다. 몽골은 한국을 자국 경제발전의 모델로 삼아 한국과의 협력관계 확대를 중요한 외교목표로 설정, 적극적인 對한국 접근정책을 전개하는 한편, 한국은 같은 동북아 국가로서 몽골의 상징적 중 요성 및 향후 몽골과의 협력 잠재력이 크다는 점을 중시, 몽골의 개혁 ․ 개방 정책을 적극 지지하고 유ㆍ무상 경제 원조를 매년 제공하는 등 협력 관계 확대ㆍ발전에 노력을 기울여 왔다. 몽골은 남북한 동시수교국으로서 북한과의 전통적 우호관계 유지 입장을 강조하면서도, 한국 과의 현실적 이해관계가 증대되면서 사실상 南韓에 치우친 등거리 정책을 추진하고 있는 것으로 평가되고 있다. 한ㆍ몽 양국은 '99.5 김대중 대통령 방몽을 계기로 한국의 개발 경험과 노하우, 몽골의 풍부 한 자 원 등 잠재력을 결합한 21세기의 상호보완적 협력관계에 합의하고 제반 분야에서의 협력의 방향성을 제시한데 이어 노무현 대통령의 국빈방문으로 한ㆍ몽 양국은 이러한 관계발전을 토대로 선진 우호협력 을 위한 동반과 관계로 한 단계 격상시켰다. 양국의 경제ㆍ통상관계가 더욱 확대되고, 정치 분야와 국제 사회에서의 협력 분야에서도 보다 긴밀한 관계발전이 예상된다.