News Digest
IRAN TO MAINTAIN NUCLEAR POLICY
By empty (6/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran\'s newly elected hardline President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said his government will continue the country\'s nuclear programme. He told his first news conference after his election that the nuclear programme was needed to meet Iran\'s energy needs. The United States has accused Iran of using its atomic energy programme as a front to develop nuclear weapons.UN WARNS ABOUT AFGHAN INSTABILITY
By empty (6/25/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United Nation\'s top envoy for Afghanistan has said that violence is threatening security in the run-up to September\'s elections. Jean Arnault said that rebels loyal to the former Taleban had become more violent. His comments came as the Afghan and US-led forces ended a big military operation in southern Afghanistan.RUSSIAN, TAJIK DEFENSE MINISTERS SIGN BASE PROPERTY TRANSFER ACTS
By empty (6/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and his Tajik counterpart Sherali Khairullayev on Friday in Dushanbe singed transfer acts on the movable property of the Russian military base. \"The documents like the ones signed earlier permit for long-term plans of building both a Russian military base and the Nurek optical observation facility,\" Ivanov told reporters after the ceremony. \"Even though it is the most advanced electronic facility having no analogs in the world we shall always be thinking of the future and looking at decades ahead,\" he said.RAID FAILS TO NET TALEBAN CHIEFS
By empty (6/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
US and Afghan forces have wound up a bloody offensive in south Afghanistan but failed to find the Taleban leaders they hoped had been surrounded. Afghan officials say more than 100 Taleban fighters were killed in Zabul province in one of the biggest operations for two years. However, at least two top Taleban leaders radio intercepts suggested were present had not been traced.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.