The 16th BRICS Summit was hosted by Russia in Kazan on 22-24 October 2024. It was a large gathering of the Global South economies, where leaders from BRICS Members, new members[1], partner countries, and international organizations, including the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, participated. Significantly, all five Presidents of Central Asian countries…

On May 7, 2023, the National Security Advisors (NSAs) of the United States of America (USA), India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) in Riyadh. The NSAs meeting focused on repairing USA ties with Saudi Arabia, facilitating the normalization of Saudis relations with Israel, and expanding the infrastructure connectivity in the region …

The observed systemic crisis of trust between the major world powers brings medium and small states from different blocs to the world stage, with their own political features and even mutual contradictions, but…

Two separate events in quick succession, first the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ meeting on 28-29 July 2022 and later the commemoration of the ‘Chabahar Day’ on 31 July 2022 in India have brought the significance of the Chabahar Port in inter-regional connectivity back to the spotlight.
SCO Foreign Ministers meeting at Tashkent.
Uzbekistan, the current Chair of SCO …