Under the agreement, confirmed by both sides and effective from 1 p.m. (0900 GMT) on Wednesday, separatist forces will disband and disarm and talks on the future of the region and the ethnic Armenians who live there will start on Thursday.
Among the main challenges that the Central Asian countries and the UN are jointly overcoming are the problems of stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan, countering the threats of terrorism and extremism, radicalization, drug trafficking and organized crime, solving urgent problems in the areas of environmental and water security, etc.
As part of the Fifth Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia, the Foreign Ministers of the Central Asian states signed 2 new documents:on land transport connectivity, and on youth policy
Skilful diplomacy resulted in a consensus building and a clean New Delhi Declaration without any footnotes of dissent.
Indian diplomacy scored many victories at the G20 summit from getting the warring parties in Ukraine to agree on a joint statement, enabling African Union’s admission into G20, announcement of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, and launch of the Global Biofuel Alliance
The geopolitics of expanding East-West polarisation and persistent North-South divide provided an acid test for India’s leadership and it has come out quite successful in converting those challenges into opportunities as well.