Articles tagged with: diplomacy
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Tuesday, 19 Mar, 2013
ISLAMABAD/CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi paid the first official visit of an Egyptian leader to Pakistan in four decades on Monday, before moving on to India to attempt to boost trade links.
His one-day visit to Pakistan was the first of its kind by an Egyptian president since Gamal Abdel Nasser. President Anwar Sadat visited Pakistan in 1974, although this was to attend a multilateral summit.
The Egyptian president yesterday held a bilateral meeting with hi...
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Friday, 15 Feb, 2013
President Obama kicked off his second term in office with an agenda firmly focused on domestic issues. The conflict in Syria, with more than 70,000 dead and its ills already starting to reach its neighbors, received barely a mention in either Obama’s Inaugural Address or his State of the Union speech to Congress.
Syria did receive unexpected attention in an interview with the then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the New York Times at the end of January. In her interview, the former Se...
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Saturday, 29 Dec, 2012
With the reelection of President Obama and hints in the international media that diplomatic wrangling over Iran’s nuclear program is set to resume in early 2013, the question...
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Monday, 16 Jul, 2012
About the only principal of physics I remember from school is the third law of thermodynamics, which holds that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Exactl...
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Monday, 27 Feb, 2012
Recent remarks by President Ahmadinejad’s top advisor and close ally, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, have shed some light on yet another setback for Iran at a time of increasing diplom...
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Stephen Glain is an American veteran, not of wars or military incursions, but of more than twenty years’ experience as a foreign correspondent and intrepid journalist. Stationed ...
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Tuesday, 11 Oct, 2011
Six months after the outbreak of protests in Syria there is little sign of the violence halting any time soon. Over 2,700 people have been killed and tens of thousands have eit...
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Thursday, 15 Sep, 2011
The death toll resulting from Syria’s crackdown has surpassed 2,600 lives according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The violent repression of the ...
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Tuesday, 12 Jul, 2011
The visit by Ford was met with silence on Friday by the Syrian state media and the government, and there was little interference by Damascus when the opposition greeted the Amb...
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