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Natsagiin Bagabandi | |
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Нацагийн Багабанди | |
2nd President of Mongolia | |
In office 20 June 1997 – 24 June 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Janlavyn Narantsatsralt Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
Preceded by | Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat |
Succeeded by | Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party | |
In office 7 February 1997 – 6 June 1997 | |
President | Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat |
Premier | Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan |
Preceded by | Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
Succeeded by | Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
Chairman of the State Great Khural | |
In office July 1992 – July 1996 | |
Preceded by | Radnaasümbereliin Gonchigdorj of Little Khural |
Succeeded by | Radnaasümbereliin Gonchigdorj |
Personal details | |
Born | Yaruu, Zavkhan, Mongolian People's Republic | 22 April 1950
Political party | Mongolian People's Party |
Spouse | Azadsurengiin Oyunbileg[1] |
Children | 2 |
Natsagiin Bagabandi (Mongolian: Нацагийн Багабанди; born 22 April 1950) is a Mongolian politician who served as the 2nd President of Mongolia from 1997 to 2005.[2] He won the 1997 presidential election and subsequently the 2001 presidential election, serving a total of two terms. Prior to running for president, he served as the Chairman of the State Great Khural from 1992 to 1996 and the Secretary General of the Party Leadership Council of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (now known as the Mongolian People's Party) from February to June 1997.
He was the first person to be the director of Oyu Tolgoi LLC, serving from 2010 to 2013[3] and then again from 2016 to 2023.[4]
Bagabandi was born on 22 April 1950 in Zavkhan, Mongolia as the 5th child of a herder family.[5] In 1979 he joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. He studied in Leningrad (Leningrad Technical School of the Refrigeration Industry), Ukraine (Odesa Technological Institute of the Food Industry) and Moscow (Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU), and graduated in Food engineering. In 1987, he received a doctorate in Philosophy.[6][circular reference] He became Chairman of the State Great Khural, in 1992 for four years.[7]
In early 1997, he became General Secretary of the MPRP, shortly before the presidential elections, which were held in difficult conditions for the party as it had lost to the Democratic Union Coalition prior in the 1996 parliamentary election. The DUC had won 50 seats out of 76 in the State Great Khural while the MPRP had only won 25 seats.
However, Bagabandi won the 1997 presidential election with 62.53% of the vote, defeating his predecessor Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat who had won 30.65% of the vote. He became the 2nd President of Mongolia and the 1st President running from the MPRP. He won re-election in 2001 with 59.19% of the vote, beating Radnaasümbereliin Gonchigdorj by 12%.[8] He was the first president to win a second term.
During his first term, There were a total of 4 prime ministers from the DUC appointed by the State Great Khural.
On 13 November 2000, President Vladimir Putin made a diplomatic visit to Mongolia at the invitation of President Bagabandi, which re-strengthened the bilateral relations between the two countries.[9] This was the first visit made by a Russian head of state since Leonid Brezhnev in 1974. Price of russian fuel exports to Mongolia was lowered and bilateral economic cooperation was expanded.[10] Nambaryn Enkhbayar was elected to succeed Natsagiin Bagabandi in the 2005 presidential election, with 54.17% of the vote.[11]
He is married with two children.
After the end of his presidential term, Bagabandi became a low-profile figure in politics and published several volume of books about meditation and philosophy called "Crown Words" (Mongolian: Титэм Үгс, romanized: Titem Ügs).
Country or Institution | Award | Date |
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Mongolia | Order of Genghis Khan[12] | 13 July 2011 |
Mongolia | Order of Sukhbaatar[13] | 13 September 2006 |
Hungary | Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit[14] | 2005 |
Russia | Order of Friendship[15] | 19 April 2000 |
Mongolian People's Republic | Medal "70 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" | 1991 |
Country | School | Degree | Date |
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USA | Indiana University Bloomington | Honorary Doctorate[16] | 2005 |
Mongolia | National Academy of Governance | Honorary Doctorate | 1999 |
Japan | Senshu University | Honorary Doctorate | 1998 |
Turkey | Ankara University | Honorary Doctorate | 1998 |
Kazakhstan | Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University | Honorary Doctorate | 1998 |
Ukraine | Odesa National Academy of Food Technologies | Honorary Doctorate | 1995 |