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Mongolia signs pact to allow boarding of ships with suspect cargos

Thursday, 25 October 2007

Though Mongolia is landlocked, it has 62 ships registered worldwide under its flag. Due to that fact, the U.S. and Mongolia signed an agreement Tuesday to allow Mongolian ships to be boarded if they are suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.

The U.S. ship-boarding pact is meant to keep an eye on rogue nations, such as North Korea, which might try to conceal a lethal cargo under the flag of another country.

Mongolia is the eighth country which has signed the pact with the United States.

Five of the top ten “flag of convenience” countries, including Panama, Liberia, Malta, Cyprus and the Marshall Islands have also signed the ship-boarding pact. These countries account for nearly 10,000 registered ships worldwide.

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