News Digest
KADYROV GUARANTEES SECURITY TO BOROZDINOVSKAYA
By empty (6/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechnya\'s First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said he guarantees complete security for the citizens of Borozdinovskaya village, who fled their homes after a sweep operation on June 4. In accordance to a decree from Chechen President Alu Alkhanov, Kadyrov was appointed head of the state commission that is to investigate the Borozdinovskaya incident. \"I have given my word that the citizens of Borozdinovskaya will feel secure, and I will achieve this.ABKHAZIA REJECTS ANY CONDITIONS IN RAIL TRAFFIC RESUMPTION
By empty (6/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Abkhazia objects to linking the resumption of railroad traffic with the settlement of political problems, president of the unrecognized republic Sergei Bagapsh told Heidi Tagliavini, special representative of the UN Secretary General, on Monday. \"Abkhazia does not accept any preliminary conditions. The Sochi agreement that Georgia and Russia signed in March 2003 stipulates the resumption of railroad traffic,\" the presidential information department quoted Bagapsh as saying.MOVING RUSSIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO ARMENIA NOT TO AFFECT KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
By empty (6/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The redeployment of Russian military equipment from Georgia to the Russian Defence Ministry’s base in Armenia will not change the balance of forces in the Karabakh conflict zone and will not hamper the quest for the ways of peaceful settlement. Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the Committee for International Relations of the State Duma lower house of parliament, expressed his confidence in this on Monday. He said, the Russian military bases are being speedily removed from the Georgian territory.ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS KARABAKH
By empty (6/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov held brief talks in Brussels on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Gamlet Gasparian told Interfax on Monday. \"The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers held a 20-minute meeting in Brussels,\" Gasparian said. The talks were held within the framework of a forum on Iraq, he said.Visit also
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Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
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