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Summary On June 15, 2020, Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a brawl that left twenty Indian soldiers dead while causing an unspecified number of Chinese casualties. The clash is a part of a broader border standoff along the Galwan River between the two forces on the Line of Actual Control that is yet to be resolved. The Indian strategic community is broadly in agreement that this border dispute marks an implacable decline in India-China ties. They argue that the very basis of relations that ...

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iStock No one can argue that 2020 wasnt disruptive to almost everyone in the world. And businesses were no exception. To accommodate the need for social distancing, countless organizations had to reconfigure everything from their business models to their networks. The almost overnight shift to remote work meant everyone from employees, to students, to healthcare workers had to connect to their business networks from outside. Retailers scrambled to adapt as the pandemic altered ho...

This Wednesday, the Minister of National Defence highlighted the major challenges and priorities for cooperation between the EU and NATO and the Strategic Compass at the Interparliamentary Conference on the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), an initiative organised by the Parliamentary Dimension of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union. João Gomes Cravinho believes that “cooperation between the European Union ...

The ministers discussed the following issues: the situation in Russia following the imprisonment of opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The minister urged the EU to adopt a strong, united response that among other things takes into account support for civil society and the need to preserve channels of dialogue with Russia. the Iranian nuclear issue. The minister underscored the troubling nature of the current situation and presented the results of the E3+U.S. meeting held in Paris on February 18....

The high-level conference on the topic “Finding Direction with a Strategic Compass? Reflections on the Future of EU Security and Defence” took place on 19 February 2021 under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Portuguese Defence Minister, João Gomes Cravinho, opened the conference, which was also addressed by the Deputy Secretary General for Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), Charles Fries, and the Director of the European Defence Ag...

02/15/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/15/2021 17:12 Delegates Vow to Cement Multilateralism by Spurring Collective Efforts through ‘Action for Peacekeeping’, as Special Committee Begins United Nations peacekeeping operations are central to multilateralism, speakers told the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations at its first meeting of the 2021 session, expressing their commitment to further spur collective action through the Action for Peacekeeping initiat...

Source: United Nations 4 United Nations peacekeeping operations are central to multilateralism, speakers told the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations at its first meeting of the 2021 session, expressing their commitment to further spur collective action through the Action for Peacekeeping initiative launched in 2018. The Special Committee was created by the General Assembly in 1965 to conduct a comprehensive review of all issues relating to United Nations peacekeeping.  The...

Joint press release following the 7th Association Council meeting between the EU and Ukraine On 11 February 2021, the European Union and Ukraine held the 7th meeting of the Association Council, in Brussels. The meeting was co-chaired by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine. The Association Council reaffirmed its continued commitment to strengthening the political association and economic int...

On 11 February 2021, the European Union and Ukraine held the 7th meeting of the Association Council, in Brussels. The meeting was co-chaired by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine. The Association Council reaffirmed its continued commitment to strengthening the political association and economic integration of Ukraine with the European Union on the basis of the Association Agreement and its...