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VIF Neighbourhood News Digest - December 30, 2022

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NRC Chief Urges West to Engage with Islamic Emirate: Tolo News

Jan Egeland, head of Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, urged the West to engage with the Islamic Emirate. Egeland made the remarks in a special interview ....

December 30, 2022 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Nepal elections , Bhutan , Nepal China , NRC , Humanitarian aid , Inflation , PTI , India-Maldives , Hydropower , India-Myanmar , Nepal India , Sri Lanka-Maldives , China to Bangladesh , Russian Vessel , Border Killing , Easter Bomber , Bankrupt Sri Lanka , Tamil National Question , UNICEF , NSC , floods.

What Can BIMSTEC Deliver That SAARC Could Not?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hosted the 5th BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Summit in a “hybrid mode” from 28 to 30 March 2022, marking the grouping’s 25 years of existence. As....

April 07, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Article , BIMSTEC , port development , Security , BRI , Humanitarian aid , Connectivity , junta , foreign exchange crisis , Gotabaya , prosperity

Biden’s Executive Order on Afghan Funds

Dr Anwesha Ghosh Article

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 prompted governments and international institutions to quickly freeze Afghan Central Bank assets abroad. Reportedly, about $7.1 bn of Afghan assets was held in the US.February 21, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , Taliban , Humanitarian aid , Biden Administration , Executive order , frozen Afghan funds , 9/11 victim

The Agony of Yemen

Amb K P Fabian Commentary

In our pre-occupation with the coronavirus crisis, with a rising death toll, apparently unstoppable (27,370 on 28th March, 05 22 GMT), we should not fail to take note of an unhappy fifth anniversary of the war in Yemen, or more accurately, the war on....

March 31, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Iran , Saudi Arabia , Houthis , Operation Desert Storm (ODS) , Military situation , Humanitarian aid , Stockholm Accord