A Treaty of friendship and alliance between the Government of Mongolia and Tibet was signed on 11 January 1913[1] (corresponding to 29 December 1912 of the Julian calendar), at Urga (now Ulaanbaatar).
This treaty's text in Mongolian was published by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 1982,[2] and in 2007 an original copy in Tibetan language and script surfaced from Mongolian archives.[3]
Treaty of friendship and alliance between the Government of Mongolia and Tibet | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 蒙藏條約 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 蒙藏条约 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | བོད་སོག་ཆིངས་ཡིག་ | ||||||
Mongolian name | |||||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | Монгол-Төвөдийн гэрээ Mongol-Tövödiin geree ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨ ᠭᠡᠷᠡ |
There have been questions about the authority of a Tibetan negotiator, Dorjiev, to conclude such a treaty, being he was both a Russian subject and ethnically Buryat.[4]