... agreement on all these issues even in peacetime, let alone today.
All in all, reform of the UN Security Council seems unlikely. But that does not mean the debate on the issue will not become more assertive. Rising centers of influence from India to Turkey, from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, from Argentina to Nigeria, and others, are increasingly pressing the issue of justice.
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slogan “
the world is bigger than five”
is, as you might expect, in tune with the ...
... authorities, are involved in circumventing sanctions against Russia. The new package highlights two companies registered in Finland. According to the US Treasury, they were used to supply electronics to Russia. The same applies to two companies from Turkey. In general, the practice of using blocking sanctions against those firms from third countries that violate US export control regulations is developing. On July 20 this year, four companies from Kyrgyzstan were blocked in a similar manner. Earlier ...
... Ilham Aliyev (since 2003) realized their first visit abroad in none other than France. Moreover, a Treaty of Friendship was signed between the two countries in 1993 and France was the second country to recognize Azerbaijan’s Independence, right after Turkey.
Azerbaijan became the first South Caucus economic partner of France in 2020 (even before Armenia). France is also an important foreign investor in the country (7th greatest in 2019).
France also maintains important cultural and scientific networks ...
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Pakistan and Turkey are neighboring nations, with only Iran separating the two states. These two countries share a long history, steaming from Pakistan’s very establishment, when Indian Muslims were spiritually and morally supported by the Ottoman Empire’s caliph....
... African nations during the past five years. PhosAgro, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers,
plans
to double its fertilizer supplies to Africa within three years.
At a press conference following the talks with President of Turkey on September 4, 2023, Vladimir Putin
announced
that Russia would organize the supply of 1 million tons of grain at a preferential price to be processed in Turkey along with gratuitous transportation to the poorest countries. The given scheme assumes ...
... that the U.S. would decisively endorse India should a military confrontation with Pakistan play out. As an example of America’s “low profile” in such matters, we could cite its extremely cautious reaction to the acute crisis between Russia and Turkey in November 2015 after the Turkish Air Forces downed a Russian ground attack aircraft over the Syrian-Turkish border. This uncertainty about the U.S. security guarantees credibility makes the prospects of a US-India defence alliance even less plausible....
... resentment from those who are not admitted to the club. Sometimes, those who are not let in, try to start an alternative club of their own. It is no accident that soon after the launch of BRICS an informal alliance of middle powers—Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia (MIKTA) was created. One of the implicit goals of the new grouping was to serve as a counterbalance to BRICS in generating ideas and proposals for the G20 agendas.
Of course, BRICS does not need to make a clear—cut choice between ...
... the same time, the Americans blocked a number of companies and persons associated with them from Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Finland, and Estonia. In March and April 2023, companies from Armenia, China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Uzbekistan fell under blocking sanctions for similar reasons. Legal entities associated with financial transactions in favour of previously blocked persons or related assets in third countries (in the UAE, Cyprus, Switzerland, etc.) were blocked....
... objective of building transportation networks to connect these countries with Central Asia and European markets. The INSTC membership has gradually expanded to include several other countries, namely Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Syria, Belarus and Oman.
One of the biggest advantages of INSTC is considerable reduction in transportation cost and transit time between Russia and India. An added advantage is that that INSTC would facilitate trade among Russia, South Asia, ...
... air to ground munitions. In parallel, PAF is also keen to retain its advantage in unmanned aerial systems. Beside acquiring home-grown drones of varying capability, PAF is procuring cutting edge Akinci HALE UCAV and combat-proven TB-02 MALE UCAV from Turkey.
The real strength of PAF, however, is represented by its comparatively abundant fleet of air borne early warning control (AEW&C) aircrafts. PAF operates almost dozen AEW&C aircrafts of Chinese (ZDK-03) and Swedish (Erieye) origin. These eyes in ...
