 The Obama administration's South Asian foreign policy was outlined in "The Obama Administration's Policy on South Asia" by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, who wrote "[o]ur goal was and remains to support the development of sovereign, stable, democratic nations, integrated into the world economy and cooperating with one another, the United States, and our partners to advance regional security and stability.At the start of the Obama administration there were several regional hot spots within South Asia including Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.Several conflicts exist within the region including an ongoing war in Afghanistan and an ongoing conflict in North-West Pakistan.