This year NATO is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of its foundation, while Azerbaijan is marking the 15th Anniversary of its accession to the Partnership for Peace. On these significant occasions, it gives me a special pleasure to glance through past years and to assess the current level of...
Located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia, Afghanistan has been a battlefield for some six centuries and a “strategic prize for foreign empires for more than 200 years”. The most recent episode of foreign military intervention in the country began in October 2001, when US aircraft...
Over the past weeks, the US has accelerated efforts to confront the danger to world peace and its own security arising from the security situation in Pakistan. In a statement to Congress, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was quoted as saying that the ongoing deterioration in the internal...