Source: Udriin Sonin               Date: August 24, 2011

The U.S. Ambassador denied all rumors regarding plans about waste disposal in Mongolia. Concern has spread in Mongolia that the U.S. and Japan are planning to use Mongolia as a waste burial site and many believed negotiations were a part of Vice President Joe Biden's agenda during his visit to Mongolia.

“We never talked about nuclear waste burial,” said U.S. Ambassador Jonathan Addleton. “This official visit has nothing to do with nuclear burial. In talks and discussions, this topic will not be covered or mentioned, because the U.S. Government has no idea, or proposal or objectives to bury nuclear waste in Mongolia.”

Reports that the U.S. and Japan plan to use Mongolia as a nuclear waste disposal site have circulated in Mongolian newspapers.