News Digest
AZERBAIJAN INSISTS ON CONTROL OF LACHIN CORRIDOR
By empty (6/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan\'s Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told journalists in Baku on 20 June that the Paris talks resulted in a rapprochement between the two sides\' positions concerning unspecified aspects of the peace process. Azimov said the Paris talks focused on \"various aspects,\" of which the most important to Azerbaijan is the liberation of Azerbaijani territories currently under Armenian control and creating \"normal conditions\" for the return to those districts of Azerbaijani displaced persons. He suggested that in the initial stage, international peacekeepers could be deployed to those districts.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT PARDONS 100 PRISONERS
By empty (6/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on 20 June pardoning 100 prisoners \"on humanitarian grounds.\" The 100 include 27 persons from a list of 107 designated political prisoners by the Council of Europe, together with Rza Guliev, the nephew of self-exiled opposition Democratic Party of Azerbaijan Chairman Rasul Guliev. Rza Guliev was sentenced six years ago to eight years\' imprisonment on charges of embezzlement.LEADING KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER, ALLY REAFFIRM PACT
By empty (6/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Leading presidential candidate and acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev and Feliks Kulov, head of the Arnamys Party, announced in a joint appeal on 20 June that their alliance remains strong in the lead-up to the 10 July presidential election, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. The two noted that they have given up their posts in the government for the duration of the presidential campaign in order to prevent any untoward use of so-called \"administrative resources.\" In light of recent unrest in Bishkek, they stated, \"We warn that rioting will be countered as harshly as possible.OSCE RENEWS CALL FOR UZBEK INVESTIGATION
By empty (6/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The OSCE announced in a 20 June press release on the organization\'s website (http://www.osce.org) that OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel \"has reiterated his call for a credible, independent, and international investigation\" into events in Andijon, Uzbekistan on 13 May.Visit also
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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.