Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Kabul (BNA) Expansion and strengthening of diplomatic ties with regional and ultra-regional nations is one of good achievements of government of Afghanistan during recent eleven years that with establishment of good relations, this country did to sign strategic cooperation agreements with a number of countries and these agreements opened the doors of harmony and cooperation between Afghanistan and those countries and enormous money are assisted to Afghanistan in various fields.
Despite these agreements, multi-partite conferences are held in connection with cooperation in the fields of equipment and training Afghan security forces, counterterrorism, fighting against narcotics, official corruption, promotion of capacity building of government employees and strengthening and expansion of ties among nations. It is planned that following previous meetings, the meeting of countries of Heart of Asia to be held next month in Alma Ata the capital city of Kazakhstan at the level of foreign ministers to solve regional challenges, exacerbation of counterterrorism, campaign against narcotics, organized crimes, strengthening and expansion of ties among member nations. This that how the said meeting can succeed to overcome the regional challenges and how much reduces the graph of organized crimes, narcotics and the attacks of terrorists, in this connection, our reporter interviewed with expert in political affairs Malik Setaze and head of regional strategic studies Ghafour Liwal that presented hereunder:
Setaze said that in fact, the meeting of countries of Heart of Asia paved the way for harmony among member states for improvement of international relations of regional countries. Despite such meetings as an institution judge on decision makings and international strategies, but beside this, decisions which are made in these meetings have their own impacts, and importance in the process of international relations. What is important in this meeting is this that the member countries should emphasize on the role of Pakistan in peace situation in Afghanistan. On the other, it is necessary that in this meeting, Afghanistan as a key state analyses the issue and in this analyses, she demand from member countries so to express their convergence for discussion around regional problems in a joint meeting in Kabul. The North American nations, European countries and neighbors should be invited so to make prominent the issue of Afghanistan in this meeting. In regard with attending of Afghanistan into this meeting and its stand and position so to bear a positive result, Setaze said that if Afghanistan have information about what harms this country in its international relations specially about the role of terrorism, meddling of terrorist organizations from beyond the borders of Afghanistan and social problems stem from interferences of neighboring countries and bring it to the meeting with itself and set forth it as an important issue and make effort with utility from presence of regional countries ratify a resolution in the connection, this meeting would have a good achievement for it. If the Afghan government attends in this meeting sans any plan and program, in fact this meeting would be a political and official meeting. Setaze added that the Heart of Asia meeting is an new born institution and its role and activity is not so much clear and digestible, because every decision made in this institution did not placed in international level but this institution as an international ones can play its role in the region specially regarding the issue of Afghanistan that swallows further reservoirs of war in the world and can get world importance. This is possible in a time that the USA and its regional strategies be considered in this meeting and get coordinated and the viewpoints of these meetings be absorbed in the mechanisms of the US strategy. But head of regional strategic studies Ghafour Liwal said that the meeting of Heart of Asia is not effective and added that I am not optimist regarding such meetings. Because it is unknown that the member nations feel how much need for the solution of the countries’ problems and how much they would reach to an regional agreement about security and on the other, there are some countries in the region such as Pakistan that it doesn’t see its national interests in regional security. So till the national interests with regional stability not to be in balance and harmony, till that time such meetings borne on results, Liwal added that in this meeting, the government of Afghanistan should make effort so to satisfy regional countries that as an important strategic center, till Afghanistan not to be stabilized, stability in the region is impossible. The meeting of foreign ministers of Heart of Asia member nations would be held in Alma Ata the capital city of Kazakhstan next month in a time regarding counterterrorism, fighting against narcotics, organized crimes, solution of regional challenges, strengthening and expansion of diplomatic ties among these countries that recently a tri-partite summit of the USA, Afghanistan and India was held in New Delhi for strengthening and expansion of diplomatic ties and cooperation in security and economic fields with the government of Afghanistan.
