On Friday 11 December, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and International IDEA co-organized a webinar to present the findings of International IDEA’s report The Global State of Democracy 2019: Addressing the Ills, Reviving the Promise in Mongolia. The webinar explored the state of democracy in Mongolia today, as well as in Asia and the Pacific as a whole, and provided valuable lessons from managing a general election during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar facilitated high-level dialogue with prominent speakers on the existing challenges for Mongolian democracy, some of which have been accelerated as an effect of the global pandemic. The session was opened by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, H.E. Mr Nyamdorj Ankhbayar, who highlighted the need to share and compare country experiences to improve democracy in the region. “