The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week. United States policy
- This weekend John Kerry will visit Colombia and Brazil, in his second trip to the region as Secretary of State. In his meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Kerry is expected to discuss the state of trade two years after a free trade agreement went into effect, the ongoing peace talks, overall security and Colombia’s training of foreign forces and increasing security assistance to third countries. See a previous ...
* Note: This piece originally ran in US News & World Report on 08/08/2013. *
This month, roughly 25 members of Congress will travel to Sub-Saharan Africa for a wide range of discussions in Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Riding on the heels of President Obama’s trip to the region, U.S. policymakers appear keen to focus their conversations on ...
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Secretary of State Kerry and Colombian Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín.
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John Kerry is about to make his second trip to Latin America as secretary of state. The first was in...
A round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the last week:
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Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon traveled to Moscow and met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Rahmon promised that some time in the fall his country would ratify an agreement extending the presence of Russia’s 201st Military Base in Tajikistan until 2042. Tajikistan has delayed ratification the agreement, signed by the two presidents
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Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon visited Moscow last week to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, and at the top of the agenda was the fate of the Russian military base in Tajikistan. The base, with about 7,000 soldiers, is Russia’s largest land forces base outside its borders, and it’s become the largest single issue of contention between the tiny, unstable country and its superpower patron.
The base is home to Russia’s 201st Motorized Rifle Division, which, in 1991 (when the Soviet Union...
On Wednesday, July 31, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed that Operation Bright Star in Egypt will still be held in September, despite ongoing debate over other aspects of U.S. security assistance to Egypt. Co-sponsored by the Egyptian military and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Bright Star is often...