News Digest
PUTIN SAYS IRAQ CRISIS MOST SERIOUS CONFLICT SINCE END OF COLD WAR
By empty (3/31/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking at a gathering of Duma-faction heads in the Kremlin on 28 March, President Vladimir Putin said the crisis in Iraq has developed into the most serious global conflict since the end of the Cold War and that it has shaken the foundations of global stability and international law, the presidential website (http://www.president.kremlin.AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION BODY SELECTS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
By empty (3/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a session in Baku on 29 March, representatives of the nine opposition parties aligned in the Democratic Congress nominated Musavat Party Chairman Isa Gambar as their joint candidate for the presidential elections due in mid-October 2003. Gambar, who served as parliament speaker under the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front government in 1992-93, was one of five leading opposition figures who boycotted the 1998 presidential ballot. (Turan).KYRGYZSTAN SEEKS OUTSIDE HELP IN SOLVING BUS FIRE CASE
By empty (3/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Pressured by Chinese officials to resolve quickly the case of a bus fire in which 21 people, most of them Chinese citizens, died, Kyrgyzstan has requested help from Chinese and Central Asian law enforcement agencies. An official from the Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General\'s Office said that the Kyrgyz authorities do not see a political motive for the crime. The dead passengers, at least some of whom were reported to have been shot, were earlier identified as Uighur traders from Xinjiang who were possibly returning home with large sums of cash.TURKMENISTAN, IRAN TO START BORDER DEMARCATION IN CASPIAN
By empty (3/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran and Turkmenistan have agreed to start work on charting their common border in the resource-rich Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan\'s leading state-run newspaper reported on Friday. The border demarcation \"will allow both states to start active realisation of oil and gas exploration projects in the sea border area\", the Neutralny Turkmenistan daily said. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, efforts to exploit potentially vast oil and gas reserves beneath the Caspian have been hampered by disputes over the sea borders between Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.