Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews Feb 15, 2013 A question by Times Now addressed to the NSA S. Menon at the Asian Security Conference being held in New Delhi on whether middlemen in arms deals were a security hazard, had Menon refused to "be drawn in." "Maybe one day I will answer your question," he said to the reporter. Really? Is it that difficult to acknowledge a known fact? Or does the government feel that there is no problem in middlemen, that it has banned through its own decree?

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...