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OK, thank you. Thank you, everybody, for joining us. I'm Jim Carrafano at Heritage. I'm going to kick it over to Glenn at Saratoga here in just a minute, but I think we'll just get another minute or two for other folks to join in.
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I think Glenn will kind of go over the ground rules and introduce our speakers and we'll get started. And we were just joking before that. When Glenn and I had this idea, we really didn't think that whole part of the world was going to be turned upside
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down with stuff going on in Syria and Georgia and everything else. So it turned out, I think, is a really, really opportune time for a conversation about all of this. And then Glenn's going to tell us exactly what the Trump administration is going to do, which I'm really looking forward to. We're excited about that. Yes.

Watch Now! Forum on Security & Prosperity: Prospects for the Caspian Sea

Dec 13, 2024
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On December 11, The Saratoga Foundation and the Heritage Foundation held an online event as part of the Sinaia Dialogue in a discussion on Security and Prosperity in the Caspian Sea Region, hosted by James Carafano, Senior Counselor to the President of The Heritage Foundation, and moderated by The Saratoga Foundation President Glen E. Howard. The online event discussed the continued strategic importance of the Caspian Sea region to US national security policy and offered insight into future US policy toward the Caspian region with a new incoming US Presidential administration.

Joining in the discussion were Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to the United States, Yerzhan Ashikbayev, and Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to the United States, Khazar Ibrahim. Veteran diplomats, both ambassador’s discussed their country’s three-decades-old relations and cooperation with the United States dating back to the historical importance of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline to US-Azerbaijan relations and Kazakhstan’s strategic cooperation with the United States that dates back to Project Sapphire.

A transcript of the event can be found on The Saratoga Foundation website. Videos from this event and all our events can be found on The Saratoga Foundation’s Youtube channel as well.

Enjoy the video, and please remember to support The Saratoga Foundation by clicking on the PayPal link below!

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down with stuff going on in Syria and Georgia and everything else. So it turned out, I think, is a really, really opportune time for a conversation about all of this. And then Glenn's going to tell us exactly what the Trump administration is going to do, which I'm really looking forward to. We're excited about that. Yes.