According to Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko, in a recent meeting between his boss Murat Nurtleu and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, the European officials said that “Kazakhstan used to be in the middle of nowhere, and now it is in the middle of everywhere”. The summit in Astana has yet again shown that Kazakhstan continues to emerge as a middle power.
Retired ambassador and author Javid Husain argues that a lack cultural and political awareness with Afghani society and its neighbours, as well as an indiscriminate use of force by US-led NATO forces, which caused huge damage to properties and the loss of innocent lives, including women and children, led to a stunning strategic defeat not seen since Vietnam.
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