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‘Second Consultative Meeting’ of Central Asian Leaders in Tashkent: A Significant Feature of Regional Integration in Central Asia
December 9 , 2019 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
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Background Uzbek President Shawkat Mirziyoyev’s efforts of re-channeling the regional cooperation among the Central Asian states seems to be fructifying lately. Since assuming power in December 2016, he...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Central Asian consultative meetings , Visions for Central Asian region

West Asia Round-up - November 2019
December 6 , 2019 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 2274
Efforts are underway to de-escalate tensions between Iran on the one side and the US and Saudi Arabia on the other. Oman’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi had met Secretary Pompeo in Washington and second time carried the message to his Iranian counterpart Jawad Zarif as Iran decided to cross the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Nuclear Deal prescribed thresholds on enrichment.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Gaza strikes , Iran protests , Iraq demonstrations , West Bank settlement

2019 जापान-दक्षिण कोरिया तनाव: ‘भविष्य’ पर क्यों हावी हुआ ‘अतीत’?
December 6 , 2019 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 2625
पिछले साल से ही दक्षिण कोरिया और जापान के बीच बढ़ते तनाव के कारण पूर्वी एशिया में चिंता व्याप्त है। हालांकि राजशाही जापान की ऐतिहासिक विरासत और युद्ध की स्मृतियां क्षेत्रीय राजनीति में बार-बार उभरकर आती ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , जापान-दक्षिण कोरिया आर्थिक रिश्ते , जीसोमिया मिसाइल रक्षा प्रणाली , दक्षिण कोरिया-जापान के तनाव

Afghanistan: Reopening of peace talks
December 4 , 2019 Dr Yatharth Kachiar
Article Views: 2967
President Trump, during his surprise visit to Afghanistan on 28 November, has once again shifted the contour of US foreign policy towards the Taliban by declaring that the US has renewed the peace talks...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan peace , Taliban’s intransigence , US-Taliban engagements

The Malnutrition Crisis
December 4 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
Commentary Views: 2707
On a visit to India this November, Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, expressed his desire to see India eliminate the malnutrition crisis. “If there was one wish I had for India,...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Malnutrition alleviation programmes , Stunted children

अमेरिका-चीन में कारोबारी जंग: चीन में विग्रह
December 3 , 2019 Jayadeva Ranade
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चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (सीसीपी) के नेताओं का मूड उदास-उदास सा है। जैसा कि कहा जाता है कि अमेरिका और चीन के बीच कारोबारी जंग छिड़ी हुई है, इसने अमेरिका और चीन के बीच रिश्तों को बुरी तरह से बदल दिया है। अ...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi

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