Монгол улс, Солонгосын хойг хооронд авто тээвэр хөгжүүлэх боломж

Abstract

The Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Road Network is an important tool to facilitate international transport and trade, and to promote regional integration and economic cooperation. The Network covers 145,000 km of roads in about 40 destinations in 32 countries. As a landlocked country, we need to actively use the Asian Road Network to increase freight traffic and transit transport, and to find new export routes. Mongolia firstly joined the Asian Road Network in three directions: AN-3, AN-4 and AN-32. These routes pass to Russia, China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Pakistan, as well as access two ports in the Pacific and one in the Indian Ocean. In 2018, added new route of AN-35 with China, it has a new gateway to the northeastern China and another port in the Pacific. Now Mongolia has 4,800 km road of Asian Road Network in its territory, the time has come to participate a role in regional freight traffic. In December 2016, an intergovernmental agreement with Russia and China, has been signed on the international transport on the AN-3 and AN-4 of Asian Road Network. If this agreement is well implemented, it will bring a new era of development to our country's freight and transportation sector. Despite due to the Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years declined international freight traffic, efforts should be improve the implementation of the agreement in the future. This article identifies the features, advantages and prospects of Mongolia's four integrated roads in the Asian Road Network, and proposes to increase international freight traffic and create new export routes. It is possible to access to the Korean Peninsula and the Indian Ocean port using the Asian Road Network. These purposes shall be consern the negotiations with the member countries of the Asian Road Network.