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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
 In a policy shift, Canada is
considering opening additional embassies in energy producing countries,
including Mongolia.
Mongolia currently has an embassy
in Canada and has urged Canada in the past to reciprocate with its own
embassy in Mongolia.
Canada’s mining interests
have been urging its government to provide more assistance to help Canadian
businesses operating in Mongolia. Currently, an embassy official travels
from Beijing to Mongolia each month to assist Canadian business interests.
Fen Hampson, director of Carleton
University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs told the
Ottawa Daily Mail, “These upgrades, if indeed they take place, are
a case of the flag following trade as opposed to trade following the
flag.”
“Sometimes it's something
as simple as expeditiously getting visas for your corporate executives
who are going to be spending some time there,” he said.
“If you want to put it in
layman's terms, it's like saying a relationship is in the back of economy
class, which is pretty cramped these days and nobody pays much attention
to you, and moving it up to first class.”
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