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Your Gateway to Afghanistan & the Region Monday, March 15, 2021 Issue No. 936 www.heartofasia.af 10 afs Peace-Talk:Abdullah Emphasizes Need for United Stance on U.S. Plan Chris Alexander: will of the people and the Islamic Pakistan’s Secret Republic of Afghanistan must be ‘Proxy War’ Hurdle to clear,” Abdullah said. The meeting discussed the US Peace in Afghanistan government’s plan and regional Canada’s former ambassador to peace summits on the Afghan Afghanistan Chris Alexander has said peace process, with members that Pakistan’s “proxy war” was an emphasizing the importance and impediment to restoring peace in the necessity of peace, saying that country. Alexander also said that Taliban any measures to ensure peace in and its allies had received ample support Afghanistan should be taken. from Pakistan’s army, particularly the The participants of the meeting Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). noted that the peace in “The problem is that over these last 20 Afghanistan has a regional and years and before that, the Taliban may global aspect. The sincere efforts have not have been their own masters. and support of the region and the There will be no peace in Afghanistan unless and until Pakistan stops its covert world can guarantee the success proxy war in Afghanistan. This link needs of this process. to be broken,” Alexander said. According to the HCNR statement, “Taliban as a fighting force are not members of the Leadership welcome in Afghanistan. They are Committee continue to illegitimate, what they are doing is illegal, emphasize the need to accelerate it is terrorism, they target civilians, it is the peace process, strengthen tragic. But, we do need the Taliban to be national, regional and global sincere about the peace process, to lay As the two major Moscow-Ankara unified position. of HCNR vital and stressed that consensus for peace, establish a down their arms and to turn over a new peace meetings approach, The leadership of HCNR has Afghanistan should have a clear permanent ceasefire, and ending leaf,” he said. Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman announced that the fifth meeting and unified position on the plan the violence. of High Council for National of the leadership committee presented by the United States Previously, the Presidential Reconciliation (HCNR), says of the council held yesterday , and the regional peace meetings Palace had reacted to the US that Afghanistan should be held Sunday in the Sapidar Palace. to be held in the near future for plan by implicitly rejecting it, accountable for the US plan and Abdullah Abdullah called the the peace in Afghanistan. saying that the election was a regional meetings to be held in fifth meeting of the leadership “We are not afraid to raise issues, non-negotiable principle for the the near futur and has a clear and committee but the legitimate position and Afghan government. Hero Rashid Pakistan’s Spins Afghanistan Interior Minister Says Afghan Special Envoy for to Test Win Afghanistan arrives Afghan legspinner has Forces Can Hold Their Own picked up his second 10- haul in Tehran Afghanistan’s interior minister has in Test to help his side beat Iran’s Foreign Ministry Director- said that Afghan security forces can Zimbabwe by six for a series- General for West-Asia Seyyed hold their ground even if U.S. troops levelling win in Abu Dhabi. Rasoul Mousavi announced that withdraw. Afghanistan chased down a target Pakistan’s Special Representative Masoud Andarabi’s comments of 108 against the African nation in for Afghanistan Mohammad in an interview Saturday with the final session of the second Test Sadiq arrived in Tehran late on The Associated Press were the on Sunday to square the two-match Saturday. first government reaction to U.S. series at 1-1. “Mohammad Sadiq has traveled Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s The 22-year-old Rashid, Afghanistan’s to Tehran to hold talks with warning issued in a sharply worded national hero who’s become a global Iranian officials including Foreign letter to Afghan President Ashraf T20 star, picked up 7-137 in the second Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Ghani last weekend. In the letter pressing Ghani to step innings against Zimbabwe for a match- on developments in Afghanistan,” up efforts to make peace with remote checkpoints without U.S. air U.S. or NATO forces as a condition of winning haul of 11-325. Seyyed Rasoul Mousavi wrote on the Taliban, Blinken said, “I am support. the agreement, the Afghan National Playing their sixth Test, the Afghans his official Twitter account. concerned the security situation “The Afghan security forces are fully Security forces have faced some posted 4-545, their highest-ever total, will worsen and that the Taliban capable of defending the capital blistering assaults. before declared could make rapid territorial and the cities and the territories Andarabi also repeated his their first innings. gains” after the American military that we are present in right now,” government’s warning against a That was built on the first double withdraws. he said. “We think that the Afghan hasty U.S. retreat from the country, hundred by an Afghanistan player Andarabi said Afghanistan’s security forces this year have saying that the Taliban’s ties to al- when Hashmatullah Shahidi scored National Security Forces could proven to the Taliban that they will Qaida remain intact and that a 200 . The skipper made 164. hold territory, but would likely not be able to gain territory.” swift pullout would worsen global The Asian side seemed headed ... P3 endure heavy losses trying to hold While the Taliban have not attacked counterterrorism efforts. ... P3 March 15, 2021 Heart of Asia NATIONAL MONDAY 2 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Russia Seeks... By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt encouraged Arab countries to talk with Tehran, saying “promotion, trust and transparency in U.S. Has 1,000 More Troops in military construction” will strengthen the region’s security. Lavrov’s efforts to push Afghanistan Than It Disclosed Arab countries to better relations with Iran may have Facing a high-stakes choice and running out a deeper meaning than a of time to make it, the Biden administration is simple desire to contribute wrestling with whether to follow through with a to regional security, taking full withdrawal in the next seven weeks of the 2,500 into account a recent American troops still in Afghanistan — except, as it statement by US President turns out, that number is actually around 3,500. Joe Biden who said he was The United States has about 1,000 more troops willing to return to the Iran in Afghanistan than it has disclosed, according nuclear deal. to U.S., European and Afghan officials. That adds Steps in this direction another layer of complexity to the swirling debate demand Washington’s at the White House over whether to stick with a coordination with its Arab deal, struck by the Trump administration and the allies and being that the Taliban, that calls for removing the remaining UAE is the only regional American forces by May 1. player having contacts with A thousand troops may seem like a small number Iran, Russia can ask for the compared to the roughly 100,000 who were there UAE’s help in softening at the height of the war. But the scope of the U.S. other stakeholders’ stance. presence has become a contentious issue, not Lavrov also had an just in Afghanistan — where the Taliban want Trump pushed for rapid troop withdrawals from stationed at roughly a dozen bases and consist unplanned meeting with the Americans gone, but their foe, the Afghan Afghanistan, the Defense Department and other mostly of Special Operations troops advising Lebanon’s former Prime government, relies on U.S. air support to bolster its national security agencies used familiar methods Afghan units at the headquarters level, as well as Minister Saad Hariri, who beleaguered security forces — but in Washington. to move numbers around, which made troop levels flight and support crews for aircraft. In southern has been trying to form a Members of Congress have repeatedly called for seem to be dropping faster than they really were. It Afghanistan, U.S. jets fly overhead almost nightly. Cabinet since the deadly an increase in troops if the United States decides was comparable to what happened in 2019, when Since this time last year, U.S. troop numbers in 2020 Beirut explosions. to stay past the withdrawal date outlined in the Mr. Trump wanted to pull forces from Syria, U.S. Afghanistan have declined from 12,000 to the So far, France was the agreement, which was reached just over a year ago. officials said. current number. That drop was staunchly opposed main mediator between The cloudy accounting around the troop numbers The Obama administration used similar sleights by Pentagon leaders, who have long said that at Lebanese sides without results from some Special Operations forces having of hand under the bland, bureaucratic term “force least 8,600 U.S. troops are needed, both to support much success. The situation been put “off the books,” according to a senior U.S. management levels,” which resulted in more troops the Afghan forces and to conduct counterterrorism in the country has been official, as well as the presence of some temporary in war zones with little public oversight. missions. deteriorating, and Hariri and transitioning units. These troops, according “We’ve seen this movie before,” said Laurel E. Miller, But a review of the U.S.-Taliban deal by the Afghan seems to be in need of any to a second U.S. official, include Joint Special a former top State Department official who worked Study Group, a congressionally mandated report help he can find. Lavrov Operations Command units, some of them elite on Afghanistan and Pakistan diplomacy for former that submitted its findings to lawmakers last stressed many times that Army Rangers, who work under both the Pentagon President Barack Obama and for Mr. Trump. “To month, concluded that maintaining around 4,500 Moscow has good relations and the CIA while deployed to Afghanistan. some extent, the fudging of the numbers reflects troops in Afghanistan could be enough “to secure with all Lebanese sides, Having more troops in a country than the Defense the arbitrariness of political fixation on declaring U.S. interests under current conditions and at an besides, Russia can also Department officially acknowledges is common specific numbers.” acceptable level of risk.” put in a good word for practice. From Syria to Yemen to Mali, the United So, officially, the Pentagon insists that troop In addition to the 3,500 Americans, there are roughly Hariri with Iran and the States often details military troops to the CIA numbers are lower. “We are still at 2,500” in 7,000 NATO and allied troops still in Afghanistan Arab countries, as their or other agencies, declares that information Afghanistan, Maj. Rob Lodewick, a Pentagon who depend on U.S. forces for logistics and force position counts in the “classified” and refuses to publicly acknowledge spokesman, said in an email to The New York Times protection. If the United States did, indeed, try issue of forming Lebanon’s their presence. on Friday. to leave by May 1, it would be almost impossible government. So last year, as former President Donald J. What U.S. forces remain in Afghanistan are logistically to withdraw both the American ... P3

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and the Afghan government hosted Shekhar Gupta opined, “It will Does India Have Strategic Interests by Turkey to take place shortly to still be a country of great strategic finalize a peace agreement between importance. But for whom, is in Afghanistan? the two. the question. It will be of no Hard questions with regard to our women in schools and colleges. of the essential elements of the deal It mentions a revised plan to strategic importance to us. None real interests in Afghanistan were Any Afghan can even tell the being total withdrawal of American operationalize a ninety-day of our supplies or trade comes to never asked then and are not being President that he is in the wrong. It troops from Afghanistan by 1st of reduction in violence programme Afghanistan. None of our bad guys asked even now. was a learning to see that a former May 2021. predicated upon thwarting a hide there. No Afghan has ever Consider the following vignettes. A military man was calculating the In a recent letter to President Ashraf spring offensive by the Taliban. been involved in a terror attack child born in the December of 1979 achievements of the past decade- Ghani, the new US Secretary of The dispatch further calls upon on India. In fact, almost never has in Afghanistan would be today 41 and-a-half in intangibles rather State Antony Blinken virtually President Ghani to consider US a terror attack on us been even years old. Across four decades than gain or loss of territory qua read out the riot act to the Afghan proposals for a roadmap targeted planned in the more precise Af- that middle-aged person now has the Taliban. government to fall in line with the at a new and inclusive Afghan Pak region. They have all been only known strife, violence and Cut to 2021 and Joe Biden is the latest US approach to the Afghan government. planned and executed between bloodshed as the only normal. It third consecutive President wanting quagmire. The letter has been made The letter closes with a rather Muzaffarabad, Muridke, Karachi was on the 24th of December of that to end America’s longest war. Two public by the Afghan news outlet portentous caveat stating: “We are and Multan. Almost never has an year, Soviet Tanks had rolled across decades ago, the Americans had Tolo News. Neither has it been considering the full withdrawal Afghan, Pakhtun, Baluch, Tajik, any the Amu Daraya to commence a gone into Afghanistan after 9/11 denied by the US or the Afghan of our forces by May 1st, as we ethnicity, been involved in a terror brutal nine-year occupation of hunting for Osama bin Laden and government, respectively. consider other options. Even attack in India. that antediluvian acreage situated the Al Qaeda after the Taliban The missive sketches out the with the continuation of financial It’s always been the Punjabis. Ask on the crossroads of time. leader Mullah Omar refused to turn following modes for an across-the- assistance from the United States anybody in the Indian army who It was the year 2016. For 15 long them over to the US. While Osama board settlement to the Afghan to your forces after an American has served in Kashmir and he will years Afghanistan had now been bin Laden and Mullah Omar were imbroglio pegged on the desirability military withdrawal, I am concerned tell you that the intruders he fought free of the malevolent influence both dead, the Taliban and even the of an enduring ceasefire by the the security situation will worsen were exactly of the same ethnic of the Taliban. At a Track-2 event, I Al Qaeda are both alive and kicking. Taliban. It, therefore, envisages and that the Taliban could make stock as the bulk of the Pakistani ran into a former chief of the Afghan In fact, the United States, after ministerial-level parleys under rapid territorial gains.” army he may have to fight in a real National Army early one morning. I holding leading elements of the the auspices of the United Nations Since India is now going to sit at war: The Punjabi Muslims. Leave asked him, how is the situation in Taliban leadership in primitively between Russia, China, Pakistan, the high table to decide the future Afghanistan to the Pakistanis. If Afghanistan currently? He said we medieval incarceration in Iran and India and the United States of Afghanistan it must seriously the Pakistani army thinks it can fix, have democratic government, a Guantanamo Bay for over 15 years of America to deliberate upon a consider what “real” strategic subdue and control Afghanistan, free and a vibrant press — print, TV, or more, in a complete volte-face on unified approach to supporting interests it has in Afghanistan. after the British, Soviets and radio and digital — encompassing February 29, 2020, cut a deal with peace in Afghanistan, a senior- Writing a decade earlier on the Americans have failed to do over 1,800 media outlets, girls and the “same eminences” in Doha. One level meeting between the Taliban same question veteran journalist precisely this at the ... P3 March 15, 2021 Heart of Asia ECONOMY MONDAY 3 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost

Afghan Industry in Peril as Investment Exchange Rates Money Leaves 77.6 77.7 The Afghanistan Chambers Federation untenable,” he said. has expressed concern about the flow Karwan Folad, a steel company that 92.3 92.4 of investment capital out of the country was established in Kabul four years and says that many Afghan investors ago with more than 100 staff and over 106.2 106.3 have shifted their financial focus to $20 million in investment money, has Turkey, the UAE, and Uzbekistan in been bankrupt since the beginning of 487 488 the past year. the current solar year (1399). Afghan investors, besides facing a “We have suffered many problems lack of security and a lack of basic up until now. There is no electricity- 21 21.1 infrastructure, are now concerned with -raw materials are expensive and the possibility of chaos as uncertainty that is why less than two people are 1060 1070 reigns amid potential peace talks, now working here,” said Azizullah, an along with progress in the peace talks Over the last two years, amid the Sakhi Ahmad Paiman deputy director employee in the company. in the country. We are in close contact presidential election disputes, the of the chamber said. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Commerce with some investors to encourage COVID-19 economic impact, and the Contact Numbers “Most of the Afghan capital has shifted and Industries says it is optimistic that them to invest in Afghanistan,” Fawad recent political chaos, investment to Turkey, UAE, and Uzbekistan, as investment will increase. Ahmad, a spokesperson for the has dried up in the country, owners of Kabul Police -119 investors assess the situation as “We hope the investments increase ministry said. various companies said. Kabul Ambulance - 112 Hero Rashid... U.S. Has 1,000... TOLO News, that proposed India, Pakistan, Iran and for quick revenge for losing inside two days in the and the allied forces in time, several steps to revive the the United States to discuss Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital opening Test when they dismissed Zimbabwe for 287 in experts have said, though stalled peace negotiations Afghanistan in the near the first innings and reduced them to 7-142 in the second U.S. officials insist it remains between the Afghan future. And Moscow will host 0202301360 after enforcing the follow-on. an option. government and the Taliban. a conference on the peace But Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams, who remained Despite the shrinking timeline, The letter, which asked the process in the coming weeks Ata Turk Hospital unbeaten on 151, and Donald Tiripano showed fight to Mr. Biden has yet to decide Afghan leader to “understand that the Afghan government add 187 for the eighth wicket and help Zimbabwe avoid whether U.S. troops will stay the urgency of my tone,” was has agreed to attend. 0202500312 an innings defeat. beyond the proposed date — received by Mr. Ghani as a In addition, Mr. Khalilzad, who Rashid, who had taken 11 wickets against Bangladesh and if so, how many — or leave, personal slight, suggesting is in Doha, continues to meet Corona call center - 166 in 2019, broke the resistance with his sixth wicket of the ending America’s longest war that he was one of the main with the Taliban in an effort to innings and he denied Tiripano a maiden Test hundred after more than 19 years. obstacles to the process, said reduce violence in Afghanistan, when he trapped him lbw for 95 shortly before the lunch Mr. Biden’s own inclination, an Afghan official with direct and he is exploring other break. when he was Mr. Obama’s knowledge of the matter. ways the Taliban can engage Rashid also then removed number 11 batsman Victor vice president, was toward a Mr. Blinken’s letter also Afghans and the international Nyauchi, before he had scored, as Zimbabwe were reduced U.S. presence. But signaled continued high- community in pursuit of a dismissed for 365 in their second innings. as president, he must weigh level support for Zalmay political solution, according whether following such Khalilzad, the longtime lead to U.S. officials. instincts would run too high U.S. diplomat involved in On Friday, a massive car a risk of the Taliban defeating the peace process, who is bombing in the western Palestine Slams... government forces and a divisive figure in Kabul, Afghan city of Herat decimated to move their embassies to Jerusalem pending a final taking over Afghanistan’s key Afghanistan’s capital. Many a neighborhood and killed at agreement between Israel and Palestine on the issue cities. Many senior military in Mr. Ghani’s circle have least seven people, leaving of the holy city. commanders still argue that resented the pressure that more than 50 wounded. The Among EU states, only Hungary has diplomatic offices a full withdrawal could also the Afghan-born Mr. Khalilzad attack was carried out by the in Jerusalem. lead to Al Qaeda and other put on the government over Taliban, Afghan officials said, With the exception of the US and Guatemala, countries groups hostile to the United contentious issues, including and it was condemned by worldwide have declined to shift embassies from Tel States regaining a prominent the release of roughly 5,000 Mr. Ghani. No group claimed Aviv to Jerusalem. presence in the country. Taliban prisoners, during responsibility. But troop levels are just one the lead-up to the talks in Earlier in the week, the Taliban of many issues the Biden Doha, Qatar, which began in captured a district center administration faces as it tries September. in the northern province of Interior Minister... to make peace in Afghanistan. Trying to inject new energy Faryab, routing Afghan special He said that Afghan National Security Forces backed by Afghan leaders were already into the talks between operations forces and forcing U.S. assistance have so far put a squeeze on terrorist angry about being left out of negotiators in Qatar, Mr. the surrender of the district’s groups operating in Afghanistan, including the local the Trump administration’s Blinken proposed in his letter police chief. Islamic State affiliate. negotiations with the Taliban. that the Taliban and Afghan The Americans did not come A hasty “uncalculated withdrawal could certainly give an They were also unhappy with leadership meet next month to the Afghans’ aid, according opportunity for those terrorists … to threaten the world,” the deal that resulted; in the in Turkey, where they would to the Afghan official, despite he said from inside the compound, protected by concrete past year, the Taliban have likely discuss a cease-fire repeated requests for blast walls, barbed wire and a phalanx of security guards. and power-sharing proposal airstrikes. The warning comes as Washington is reviewing a deal the largely kept to their promise outlined by American officials. Thomas Gibbons-Neff Trump administration struck with the Taliban over a year not to attack Americans, but Neither side has agreed to the reported from Kabul, and ago that calls for the withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 they have stepped up violence deal, nor is it clear who would Helene Cooper and Eric U.S. troops by May 1. against fellow Afghans. Last week, Secretary of be attending the meeting in Schmitt from Washington. State Antony Blinken sent a Turkey from either side. Najim Rahim contributed WAYGAL Printing Co. blunt letter to Afghanistan’s Mr. Blinken also pushed for a reporting from Kabul and president, Ashraf Ghani, first U.N.-hosted meeting of foreign Asadullah Timory from Herat, If You Can Think It, reported by the Afghan outlet ministers from Russia, China, Afghanistan. We Can ink it.

Chief Editor : M. Hamid Hamdard Reporters: Safiullah Nasary, Shafiq Amirzay, Does India Have... even now. Would a foothold forces in Iraq. Prime Minister peak of each one’s in Afghanistan help us in the Vajpayee had rightly refused Jawad Temori & Hameedullah Hamidi superpower Dom, why not let event of a two-front war with to do so. Does a presence in Graphic & Design: Arman the Pakistanis try their hand China and Pakistan? Highly Afghanistan open up new at it? If they pour another ten unlikely till the time we are vistas for India in Central Asia? Phone: +93-202502100 - +93-777989696 divisions and half of the ISI not willing to put boots on Not really, after Iran dropped Website: www.heartofasia.af into that hapless country now, the ground in Afghanistan. Is India from the Chabahar to isn’t it that much of a relief for it desirable to put boots on Zahedan just before it inked Email: [email protected] us on our western borders?” the ground even if the Afghans a USD 400 billion 25-year Address: Behind Rahman Baba High School This assessment is as relevant were to request Indian military strategic partnership with presence after the Americans China. - Opposite to 3rd District, today as it was a decade ago. Hard questions with regard leave? Highly undesirable. The While it is heady to be invited Kabul - Afghanistan to our “real interests” in last time India had seriously to the high table, as the saying Print: Waygal Printing .Co - +93 - 202512626 Afghanistan were never asked considered such a request goes, there is no free lunch in then and are not being asked was in early 2003 to deploy US life. India needs to be careful. March 15, 2021 WORLD MONDAY Heart of Asia 4 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Syrian War Killed Nearly 400,000 So Far The overall death toll for Syria’s civil war has containing the coronavirus pandemic. reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this The Observatory also documented at least 16,000 month, a war monitor said Sunday. deaths in regime prisons and detention centers The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human since the conflict erupted in 2011 after the brutal Rights said the figures include almost 117,388 repression of anti-regime protests. civilians, among them more than 22,000 children. It said, however, that the real number was likely Attacks by the Syrian regime and allied militia higher because its tally does not include 88,000 forces accounted for the majority of civilian people believed to have died of torture in regime deaths, said the Britain-based monitor, which prisons. relies on sources inside Syria for its reports. Today, the Damascus regime controls more The Observatory’s previous tally was issued in than 60% of Syria after a string of Russia-backed December and stood at more than 387,000. victories against the opposition conducted since Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said 2020 2015. saw the lowest annual death toll since the war Among the regions still beyond its reach are began, with just over 10,000 deaths. the last opposition stronghold of Idlib in the by U.S.-backed YPG terrorists, the Syrian wing of pre-war population to flee their homes. Battles slowed this year as a cease-fire held northwest, Turkish-held areas along the northern the PKK terrorist group. Some 200,000 people have gone missing, in northwestern Syria and attention turned to border and northeastern parts of the country held The war has forced more than half the country’s according to the war monitor.

A look at the world Russia Seeks Arab Nigeria: 19 Killed Palestine Slams Czech Support in Reviving in Boko Haram Diplomatic Office in Iran Nuclear Deal Terror Attack Jerusalem From March 8 - 12, Russian Foreign Minister Palestine on Saturday slammed the Sergey Lavrov toured the United Arab Czech Republic for opening on March 11 a Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Qatar to diplomatic office in Jerusalem -- affiliated discuss regional and international issues. to its embassy in Tel Aviv. The tour began with the UAE, where Lavrov It called the controversial step a clear met the Crown Prince and de facto ruler violation of international law. Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan; the While stopping short of shifting the Czech country’s Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Embassy to Jerusalem, the move received Zayed Al Nahyan and National Security clear approval from Israel, with Israeli Advisor Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi attending English Academy UAE authorities made exceptions for the the opening along with Czech Prime Russian delegation where it was received in Minister Andrej Babis. American the Abu Dhabi emirate, although it is mostly closed for visits due to the coronavirus pandemic. ENGLISH FILE

Nineteen people were killed in the attack by the Boko Haram terror organization in the northeastern state of Borno in Nigeria, according to media reports on Saturday. Terrorists attacked a military convoy in Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region, The delegation was also freed from an killing 15 soldiers and four Joint Task obligatory 10-day quarantine. However, Force members. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry in a Lavrov and the delegation had to take PCR Army spokesman Mohammed Yerima statement condemned the move by tests before meeting the crown prince. said in a statement that several soldiers Prague, and said it was a “blatant attack” At a news conference, following the were also injured in the attack. on Palestinian people, their rights and a meeting, Russian and UAE ministers praised On Thursday, Nigeria’s National Security “flagrant violation of international law.” bilateral relation developments, confirmed Adviser Babagana Monguno announced It was noted that the decision was a revolt “the overlapping or similar approaches” to that his country would not negotiate with against Europe’s stance on the legal and the crises in the Middle East and promised the terror group and the government political status of Jerusalem, which was to continue “close coordination” in Syria, does not see negotiations as a means an integral part of Palestinian territories Libya and Yemen. to deal with the worsening security occupied in 1967. The UAE foreign minister surprised conditions in the country. The statement emphasized that the Czech journalists by saying US sanctions were Boko Haram launched a bloody move would have dramatic consequences Western Street of the main obstacle for restoring dialogue insurgency in 2009 in northeastern on work carried out for the resumption with Syria. He also spoke in favor of of peace negotiations between Israel and Kabul University Close to Nigeria but later spread its atrocities to Dehbori Park. Syria’s return to the Arab League and its neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, Palestine. reconciliation with regional Arab countries, prompting a military response. The ministry also held the Czech which was considered a compliment to More than 30,000 people have been government responsible for the Russia, that has consistently urged the killed and nearly 3 million displaced in a consequences of the decision not only +93 (0) 789 98 9696 lifting of sanctions on Syria and for its decade of Boko Haram’s terror activities in the Middle East peace process but in return “to the Arab family.” in Nigeria, according to the UN Office relations with Palestine, Arab and Islamic On Israel, Lavrov once again welcomed its for the Coordination of Humanitarian countries. [email protected] normalization with Arab states, including Affairs. It also urged EU states and their foreign with the UAE. However, he stressed that “a Violence has affected 26 million people ministers, as well as EU foreign policy fair settlement of the Palestinian problem in the Lake Chad region and displaced chief Josep Borrell, to intervene and make Shigal English Academy must not be relegated to the background.” 2.6 million others, according to the UN Prague reverse the decision. Lavrov then turned to Iran and ... P2 Refugee Agency. EU member states have refused ... P3