It should not be impossible to think of creating another trade and communication-related entity to come up on the pattern of BIMSTEC with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran as its permanent members, and with an almost identical agenda as of the Bay of Bengal Initiative.
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The summits are widely seen as a signal to Iran about the weight and clout that Saudi Arabia enjoys in the region and in the Muslim world.
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Uzbek citizens stranded in different conflict zones in the Middle East safely repatriated home, to be extended all facilities for rehabilitation and integration in society
With BJP winning 303 seats and NDA picking up 350 of total 542 seats, it is the first back-to-back majority for a single party since 1984
UNSMIL Chief war that unless fighting around the capital Tripoli stops, Libya risks ‘descending into a civil war which could lead to the permanent division of the country’.
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Vested interest groups in Arabic countries are not keen on opening up their borders to rival Arab businessmen. I would add that state actors in many Arab countries are also keen on monopolising transactions with the outside world, and specifically with the former colonial powers.
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Kazakhstan’s repatriation of 231 of its citizens from conflict sites in Syria and Iraq, earlier this month has been welcomed by an independent UN expert
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Almost 40,000 Syrians in the country’s south-east are facing the reality of starvation
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Myanmar’s military commanders must answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in a credible court, a United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) said on Tuesday, urging the international community to cut off all financial and other support to them.
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A press conference was organized by the Museum of Communication History in Uzbekistan devoted to