TITLE

Foreign Relations

PUB. DATE

July 2001

SOURCE

Afghanistan Country Review;2001/2002, p22

SOURCE TYPE

Country Report

DOC. TYPE

Country Report

ABSTRACT

Provides an overview on Afghanistan's foreign relations. Afghanistan's policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations; Similarity of the country's foreign policy with that of the Soviet Union after the December 1979 Marxist invasion; Afghanistan's relations with the United States.

ACCESSION #

5119917

Tags: AFGHANISTAN -- History;  INTERNATIONAL relations

 

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