Mongolia, Sept. 15 -- This week, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its operations in Mongolia and the establishment of its Resident Office in Ulaanbaatar.Over the past two decades, the EBRD has financed 172 projects worth a total of US$ 3.2 billion (€2.8 billion) in various sectors of the Bank's most easterly investee economy. Ninety per cent of the Bank's loans in the country have been extended to private companies, making the EBRD the largest lender to Mongolia's private sector among the international financial institutions.While the Bank's cooperation with Oyu Tolgoi, the world's fourth-largest copper mine, which accounts for close to 30 per cent of national gross domesti...