News Digest
SAAKASHVILI TO FIGHT CRIME IN S. OSSETIA
By empty (6/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that he will not put up with the \"criminal rampage\" in South Ossetia. At a Wednesday session of the Georgian Security Council, Saakashvili said that Georgian\'s law enforcement agencies have reliable information about the people who abducted four Georgians in Tskhinvali on June 6. \"We chose the peaceful way of settling the Tskhinvali region conflict and are ready for an open dialogue, but the Georgian authorities will not tolerate chaos and criminal disorder,\" Saakashvili said.KAZAKHSTAN READY TO PROTECT U.S. ECONOMIC INTERESTS
By empty (6/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan will work to safeguard the economic interests of the United States in the country, Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev told an international business conference in Almaty on Wednesday. \"We highly appreciate the fact that the U.S.IRAN TO CONTRIBUTE $180 MILLION TO HYDROPOWER PROJECT IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (6/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a meeting in Dushanbe on 15 June, President Imomali Rakhmonov and Ebrahim Sheibani, who heads the Iranian Central Bank, discussed an agreement between Iran and Tajikistan to construct the Sangtuda-2 hydropower plant in Tajikistan. Under an agreement that energy ministers from the two countries signed in Tehran on 11 June, Iran will contribute $180 million and Tajikistan $40 million. Work on the project, which is slated to take four years, will begin this summer.UZBEKISTAN GROUP CALLS FOR REFORM
By empty (6/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An opposition group in Uzbekistan has written to the US secretary of state asking for Washington to press for economic reform in the republic. The recently formed Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition says the government\'s bloody suppression of a protest in Andijan last month shocked Uzbek citizens. The coalition called for economic reforms to prevent a drift towards extremism.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.