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, 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.