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U.S., Mongolia enter shipboarding agreement

U.S., Mongolia enter shipboarding agreement

The U.S. and Mongolian governments on Tuesday signed a bilateral Proliferation Security Initiative shipboarding agreement.

   The agreement establishes procedures for obtaining approval, boarding, searching and, if necessary, detaining vessels suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction materials in international waters.

   This is the eighth PSI shipboarding agreement signed by the United States.