SOVIETS ANNOUNCE MONGOLIA TROOP PULLOUT.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R000600840001-3
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 1998
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• Publication Date: March 7, 1989
• Content Type: NSPR

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MOSCOW, March 7-The Soviet Europe and Asia.
Union said today it is.withdrawing fan satar* yin Western experts saw the move as
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and trim its. military budget by 11 erOwecaoK-TNEwasH~NOroNPOSr Bona at the request of its Soviet-
percent. backed government in 1966 at a
"In agreement with the Mango- golia, although recent Western es- time when once-close Sino-Soviet
Ilan government we are bringing timates put the figure at about relations had been soured by ideo-
back to the motherland three-quar- 50,000, grouped into four divisions. logical and foreign policy disputes.
ters of,'Soviet troops based there," Soviet President Mikhail Gorba- Amid signs of an improvement in
Gerasimov' said' at a news confer- chev promised in .a speech to the these ties, the Soviet Union an-
ence. "All airborne detachments United Nations in December to nounced in 1987 that it was pulling
will be withdrawn and disbanded." bring home a "major part" of Soviet out some of the troops. Western
Gerasimov did not detail the total troops from Mongolia, without giv- experts said 8,000 to 11,000 sol-
number of Soviet soldiers in Mon- ing more details, as part of far- diers were withdrawn.
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