23May2013

DIPLOMAT MAGAZINE

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Privatisation of Kosovo

The Privatisation Agency of Kosovo (PAK), established as the successor to the Kosovo Trust Agency, is an independent public body responsible for ...

Nuclear Power Struggle

Nuclear energy has been much maligned in the wake of recent events in Japan. But with the potential to produce large-scale, clean fuel, is it time to ...

Kosovo's Future

Venetia van Kuffeler talks to Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, about joining the EU, privatising companies and the new state’s other aims ...

Beyond Kosovo's Past

Kosovo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Enver Hoxhaj, reminds us that 10 years have passed since the war, and asserts that his country is one of ...

Kosovo-British Relations

Former British Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, once said that Britain ‘has no eternal allies or enemies, only eternal interests’. This ...

South Korea Politics

Oscar Holland highlights the way in which last year’s attacks on South Korea have changed its people’s attitudes towards their northern ...

Westminster Reflections

Any diplomat based in London will be aware that, amid the whirl of the global financial crisis, the Coalition is attempting a whole range of ...

Uzbekistan's 20th Anniversary

Uzbekistan celebrates its 20th Anniversary of independence this month. It is a landmark date for the whole nation, an opportunity to summarise the ...

Written by H.E. Otabek Akbarov

Ackergill Tower

‘When the weather’s good in the UK, there’s no place I’d rather holiday’ is an expression we Brits commonly use. I was ecstatic to find ...

Diplomatic Persuasion

Here on my desk is a smooth paperweight with the inscription: ‘DIPLOMACY – The art of letting someone have it your way’. Which is fine as a ...

The Capital Hotel Restaurant

Tucked away between Sloane Street and Harrods is The Capital Hotel, the discreetly elegant home of one of the finest restaurant kitchens in the UK. ...