Ms. Lkhamjav
LChinbaatar fromm Mongolia

I am Chiinbaatar LKH
HAMJAV, froom Mongolia,, and I
graduatedd in 2006 frrom the Defe
fense Universsity ofMongoliaa. As a sennior lieutenannt in the Naational
Emergenncy Managem
ment Agency of Mongoliaa, I amin charg
ge of radioo communiccations and early
warning systems. Wiith the increase in disastters inMongoliaa, the goveernment hass taken steps tostrengtheen its disaster managemennt system soo as tominimizee the damagge to lives and propertyy thatwould be caused byy future natuural and man
nmadedisastters. As a resuult, the parliaament passed the Disaster Management
Mt Act on 20May 2003.
Mongoliia is a landlocked countryy in the centerr of the Asiann continent, bbetween Chinna andRussiia, and sharess a western borderbwith Kazakhstan.
KIt
I has a land area of moree than 1.56 million
mkm2 and a populaation of arouund 2.87milliion. Mongoliia has a popuulation density of 2 peop
ple perntry. Mongoliia is comprised of 21 prov
vincessquarre kilometer, and is classiffied as a devveloping counand thhe capital cityy of Ulaanbaaatar. The poliitical system is
i a parliamenntary democrracy.
The Moongolian hearrtland consistts of relativelly flat steppees. The southhern portion of thecounttry is taken up
u by the Goobi Desert, whhile the northhern and wesstern portionss are mountaainous.
Most of the counttry is hot in thhe summer anda extremely
y cold in the winter, October to Februaary. Int
drop as low as -30ºC (-222ºF). Mongollia is cloudy approximatelly 250
Januaary, average temperatures
days a year. Ulaannbaatar is onne of the colddest cities in the world. Mongolia'sMecconomy is centeredarounnd agriculturee and mining.. Fortunately,, Mongolia has rich minerral resources,, with copperr, coal,molybbdenum, tin, tungsten, andd gold accounnting for a larrge part of its industrial prroduction. Hoowever,manyy different kiinds of naturral disasters occur in Mo
ongolia such as droughtss, heavy snow
w andextrem
me cold, foreest fires and stteppe fires, diseases,
dfloodds, earthquakkes, and technnical accidents.
The disaasters that havve occurred overothe past threetyears, 2010
2to 2012,, include 340 forestand steppe
sfires, 6,837 objectt fires, 4 casses of humann and animaal diseases, 1145 cases off acutecontaagious animall diseases, 2 cases
cof aviann influenza, 231
2 unfortunaate losses of llife caused byy riverand lake accidentts, 62 snow anda dust storrms, 49 flood
ds, 2 dzuds (summer(drooughts follow
wed by5 earthquakkes, 506 fataalities, 2,885 people withh infections, steppe firess withsevere winters), 53(tennts), houses, fences,fdamaage valued at 9.9 million tuugrugs, and thhe burning off 4,147 gers (felt-linedand enclosures
ecauusing 630,3844.9 tugrugs inn damage to the country’ss economy. Too save humann livesand preventpeconoomic losses, thhe governmennt of Mongollia began a prroject aimed aat implementting anearthqquake early warningw
systeem on 4 Julyy 2012. Workers on the prroject are now
w building 32
2 sirentowers in Ulaanbaatar. Ultimately, a total of 60 siren towers must be built.
Finally, I am grateful to the government of Japan, ADRC itself as the organizer of thisprogram, and the ADRC staff, for all the support they have given me and for allowing me to havesuch a wonderful experience during my stay in Japan.