Tageszeitung (Berlin), 9 July 2014 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the aftermath of the Afghan election and the contested preliminary result: threats of “parallel government”, calls for patience and the hope for continued mediation and a peaceful settlement. Op-ed commentary here (both in German):
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Badische Zeitung (Germany), Frankfurter Rundschau and Berliner Zeitung (print only), 8 July 2014 Kate Clark and Martine van Bijlert’s recent AAN dispatch is quoted in this article by Willi Germund (“Ghani’s election victory creates anger in Afghanistan”, in German): “Man muss aus Erfahrung davon ausgehen, dass beide Lager die Wahl manipuliert haben”, schreiben Martine van Bijlert […]
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PAP/Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), 8 July 2014 Extensive quotes by AAN’s Kate Clark: “Jeszcze w poniedziałek wydawało się, że oba obozy są bliskie porozumienia, które miało polegać na sprawdzeniu głosów w ponad 7 tys. lokali wyborczych, a Abdullah zapowiadał, że jeśli przekona się do uczciwości wyborów, uzna ich wyniki” – mówi PAP Kate Clark, z analitycznego […]
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 8 July 2014 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the aftermath of the proclamation of the Afghan preliminary presidential election result on 7 July (in German), saying that the result is still not the final one, as an audit of a large number of votes was planned and might still be carried […]
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ORF (Austrian radio), 8 July 2014 Audio of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, on the Afghan post-election crisis. In the interview, he defines the lack of electoral reform as the major issue, and emphacises the need to implement such before the 2015 parliamentary elections.
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Iran Review and Eurasia Review, 6 and 7 July 2014 Exclusive interview with AAN’s advisory board head Francesc Vendrell about the prospects for post-election Afghanistan and other issues: “A new President of Afghanistan should establish a broad-based, truly multi-ethnic administration based on merit and competence, carry out immediate steps to improve governance in Kabul and in the […]
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Deutsche Welle, 7 July 2014 Two quotes from AAN’s Kate Clark here: “The timetable is still crucial and it’s not just that Afghanistan is in limbo at the moment,” says Kate Clark from the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent think tank. (…) As Clark points out, Afghanistan “can’t reach a new military agreement with the […]
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Transitions Online, 3 July 2014 The specialised website, jointly run by Radio Free Europe and the Open Society Institute, summarises AAN’s last report about Afghan-Central Asian relations authored by Christian Bleuer and reza Kazemi: “Security risks” that link Afghanistan to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia are “often highly exaggerated,” according to a new […]
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Eurasianet, 2 July 2014 In his Bug Pit blog on eurasianet, Joshua Kucera reviews and quotes from AAN’s report about Afghan-Central Asian relations, authored by Christian Bleuer and Reza Kazemi, adding that it is “worth reading in full”.
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Afghanistan-Pakistan Update, 30 June 2014 Colin Cookman, in his very worthy update, annotates Christian Bleuer and Reza Kazemi’s AAN report “Between Cooperation and Insulation: Afghanistan’s Relations with the Central Asian Republics”.
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Agencies/Pakistan Observer, 29 June 2014 AAN’s Christine Roehrs is quoted about the Afghan past-election crisis and fraud accuations: “[Abdullah] is getting a lot of behind the scenes advice and warnings about what could happen,” says Christine Roehrs of the Kabul-based Afghan Analysts Network (AAN). “There’s a lot of mitigating going on behind the scenes,” she […]
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Reuters, 27 June 2014 In this article about Afghanistan’s post-election anti-fraud protests, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted: Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network said the first round was genuinely competitive and eliminated the candidate considered by most to be Karzai’s favourite. “The fact that the election was competitive did really knock on the head […]
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