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Batbold Sukhbaatar or Sükhbaataryn Batbold (Mongolian: Сүхбаатарын Батболд) (born: 1963) is a Mongolian politician and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia. . He was appointed as the Cabinet Minister and the Minister for External Relations by the session of the State Great Khural on September 19, 2008. He is a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP).

Batbold was the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2000-2004 and Minister for Trade and Industry from 2004-2006. He was elected Member of Parliament in 2004 and won again in the 2008 election.

Educational Background
Batbold Sukhbaatar graduated in 1980 from 10-year full secondary school # 14, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and followed it by attending Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, USSR and graduated in 1986. He then went on to finish graduate school in England at Business University in London in 1991. In 2002, he finished his doctorate at the Diplomatic Academy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

Career and Life
Batbold started off his official career in 1986 as a specialist in the Ministry of economic foreign relations and supply. He worked there until 1988, then went off to work as Director for Export firm "Mongol Impex". From there on, he built his own company, and was the General Director of “Altai trading” Co.Ltd from 1992 until 2000 when he entered his political career.

In addition to fluency in English and Russian, he has also taken French.