The World - News from June 9, 1987
The Soviet Union has completed a partial withdrawal of its troops from Mongolia, the official Tass news agency reported. Tass did not say how many Soviet soldiers were withdrawn or how many remain in the mountainous Communist nation of about 2 million people, situated between the Soviet Union and China. The Kremlin announced the withdrawal plan in January, when it had 40,000 to 60,000 troops in Mongolia, according to Western analysts. The Soviet military presence in Mongolia has been a major area of dispute between China and the Soviet Union since the 1960s.
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