Arrow tips flashes, Jinghis Khan looks strict and the federal president takes place – in a nomad tent. When Alexander van der Bell is the first Austrian head of state in Mongolia, he meets a country full of contradictions: pride, traditional – and looking for his place between China and Russia. “Krone”, foreign policy expert Clemens Zavarsky, accompanied him.
A summer day as from the picture book, 30 degrees, Bright Blue Sky – in Ulan Bator, the coldest capital in the world, with an average temperature of minus one degree. But the reception is hot -bloody: with pump, pathos and arrowheads, Mongolia welcomes its unusual guest. The federal president of Austria, Alexander van der Bellen, came to a historic state visit – the first of an Austrian head of state.
Source: Krone
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