Aerospace Diary

ASEAN open skies motivate Laos Jane's Airport Review Neelam Mathews , Delhi 14-Feb-2019 Aviation infrastructure in Laos is being upgraded in line with the continued evolution of the liberalised single aviation market (SAM) in the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). “By investing in infrastructure and [a regulatory] framework, we are drafting a seamless management plan towards ASEAN open skies,” deputy transport minister Santisouk Simmalavong remarked in January during the Global Aviation Summit in Mumbai. Tourism is another major driver behind airport upgrades to improve regional connectivity. For example, Laos expects visitor traffic from China to rise sharply from about 640,000 in 2017 to 1.5 million by 2023....JAR Big-spending Kuwait underlines dependence on international expertise Neelam Mathews , Delhi 13-Feb-2019 The Kuwaiti government intends to invest USD20 billion on modernising and expandin...

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan- Ambassador Marc Grossman January 20, 2012 Transcript of media interview First of all, thank you all very much for coming out this morning. May I also thank the Government of India for all of the hospitality that we have been shown during the day today. I am on a trip that has taken me so far first to Turkey, then to Saudi Arabia, to the United Arab Emirates, and here today to India. I had the opportunity today to call on the Foreign Secretary and I appreciated that very much. I also look very much forward to seeing my counterpart S.K. Lambah here in a few minutes, and then I have the honor to be received this afternoon by the National Security Advisor.  We have made this trip in support of Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation and so after New Delhi this evening we are going to Kabul.  I will have the opportunity to visit with the leadership of the Government of Afghanistan and particularly President Karza...