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Between Moscow and Washington: Why the 1949 Visit of Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan Did Not Take Place?

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DOI 10.31696/2618-7302-2024-1-195-202
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Section ИСТОРИЯ ОТНОШЕНИЙ
Pages 195 - 202
Annotation The article is devoted to the problems of foreign policy orientation of the post-colonial world in the condi‑ tions of the bipolar system of international relations that had been created after the Second World War. The object of the study is the foreign policy of Pakistan, which arose with the transfer of British power colonial India and its division along religious lines into the Indian Union and Pakistan. As a subject, the author proposes a conflict in the history of the formation of Pakistani-Soviet relations — the planned but failed visit of Pakistani Prime Minis‑ ter Liaquat Ali Khan to the Soviet Union in 1949. Against the background of the geopolitical interests of the USA and the USSR, an analysis of this diplomatic story and its consequences is given. The work is based on the materi‑ als from the archival collections of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Fed‑ eration, the National Archives of India, and published documents from Pakistan, the USA, and Great Britain. The author uses general and specialized literature, it is characterized by a virtual lack of comprehensive research on the topic of Liaquat Ali Khan’s visit to Moscow, its consequences for bilateral relations.
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Received 12.03.2024
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