Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Foreign Policy, introduces Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, left, to Paul Wolfowitz, dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

President Niyazov spoke at SAIS on April 21 at the invitation of the Central Asia Institute. Before an invited audience of diplomats, journalists and scholars, he spoke about the social and economic challenges Turkmenistan has faced since its independence in 1991.