Anyone who remembers the Vietnam War might be having hot flashes of déjà vu today. We are again engaged in a grand campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of an implacable foe in a place where we do not understand the language, the religion, the culture, or the opportunity costs

• Date: 21.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from americanthinker.com

Russia must play a central role in plans for a missile defence system in Europe, Nato's top official will tell a meeting of alliance foreign ministers this week.

• Date: 19.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from guardian.co.uk

The Thai army moves into the business district of Bangkok to prevent anti-government protesters entering the area.

• Date: 19.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.04.2010  |  Security  |  from bbc.co.uk

Iran, a country which the rest of the world fears is developing a nuclear weapon, is holding a conference on nuclear disarmament this week in response to this week’s U.N. nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C.

• Date: 15.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2010  |  Security  |  from theepochtimes.com

The presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Barack Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, discussed on Monday issues of energy security and cooperation in that sphere.

• Date: 15.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from itar-tass.com

World leaders agree to secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years, President Obama says.

• Date: 14.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Initiative to hold a global nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47 countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the European Union.

• Date: 14.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.04.2010  |  Security  |  from itar-tass.com

Ukraine has agreed to get rid of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium in a move that gave President Obama the first significant achievement at the Nuclear Security Summit of 47 nations that opened yesterday in Washington.

• Date: 13.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from timesonline.co.uk