Modern Diplomacy
Published 2 months ago
Pakistan and Iran have a huge International border of 959 kilometers. This border has a history of terrorist attacks, primarily from the groups based in Pakistan. The western part of Pakistan has a huge independence struggle going on, many Baloch groups wish to secede from Pakistan and make an independent country, but some groups also attack Iran. Baloch in itself is an ethnicity, historically the southern part of Afghanistan, the western part of Pakistan and the Eastern part of Iran are of Baloch peoples. In the last 50-60 years, the government of Iran and Pakistan had suppressed the Baloch people, they were always deprived of their rights. In Pakistan, the Balochistan province is their least developed province, same as Iran with fewer Schools and a high poverty rate.
The Arctic nations’ foreign ministers, and leaders of the world’s six Arctic Indigenous organizations, put on a united front at the 2019 Arctic Council ministerial in Rovaniemi, Finland despite the U.S. refusal to sign on to a final declaration that included climate language. All eyes are now on the 2021 ministerial where Iceland will hand over chairmanship of the Arctic Council to Russia. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/ AP)
The last quarter of 2020 has witnessed a flurry of activity in the area of Arctic governance and cooperation, including the recent publication of revised regional white papers by both Norway [
in Norwegian] and Sweden, (with an updated Arctic policy from Denmark soon to follow). As well, it was announced this week that the Arctic Economic Council (AEC), based in Tromsø, would be appointing Mads Qvist Frederiksen, formerly of the Confederation of Danish Industry, as its new director.
will come up in a conversation well it s not on the agenda yet greenland and there s also no official statement announced by the white house as of now but as you know president trying to always up for surprises so we can be excited to follow that event taking place denmark has made very clear that they re not interested in selling greenland and of course you also have to ask the 56000 people living there as well are all over salat joining us from washington d.c. and in georgia a consultant specializing in greenlandic and arctic affairs thank you very much to both you re. the leaders of nations at risk from rising sea levels of fail to agree on tough new climate change commitments the meeting of pacific states into ball doing to help
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anything i guess this is what he thinks he can but. you can t. i mean it s the people it s the country. it s the culture i for more on this we have the perspective from washington and from europe joining me from iceland is dami and joyce he s a consultant specializing in greenland and arctic affairs and. joins us from washington d.c. thank you to you both oliver i want to start with you president trump has reportedly brought this up multiple times with his own staffers i mean how seriously always opposed to take these rumors well his aides in the white house in the 1st place thought it was a joke the president made there when he 1st mentioned that he would like to purchase a green land from that market according to the wall street journal which broke the