India’s Connect Central Asia (CAA) policy of 2012 is a broad-based framework involving political, economic, security and cultural connections. Reviving the cultural and civilizational linkages within the region will be a driving force to destabilise the existing peace and security threats in the region while also reshaping the SCO framework.
PM Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US in June 2023 has added further momentum to the critical technology cooperation between India and the US as the significant defence contracts, particularly the agreement for the production of jet engines in India, have generated considerable excitement among the technology and defence enthusiasts.
By IAR Desk New Delhi: France on Thursday, July 13, bestowed its highest award, ‘Grand
Shavkat Mirziyoyev wins Uzbekistan’s presidential elections by 87.05% votes, the Central Election
Commission announced. The turnout, according to official data, was the lowest since 2016 – only79.88%.
Taking further his vision to tackle terrorism in the regional and a global level President Mirziyoyev said that Uzbekistan considers it necessary to speed up the preparation and adoption of major multilateral documents such as the Convention on Cooperation against Cybercrime and the Joint Program to Combat Extremist Ideology.
By Swaran Singh At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Goa, India, in
Russia’s war on Ukraine has helped put the spotlight on Central Asia. It is there that the new Great Game is being played out, with great powers wooing the region, even as Russia continues to remain distracted with Ukraine
Uzbekistan had actively supported India’s membership of the SCO, the Memorandum of Obligation of which was also signed under Uzbekistan’s presidency in the Tashkent Summit in June 2016.
Today the mountainous Central Asian country of Tajikistan is marking its Day of National Unity.
A feud between the Wagner Group leader and the Russian military brass that had festered throughout the war erupted into a mutiny on Sunday that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarter in Russia’s Roston-on-Don city before turning back
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