News Digest
UN CONDEMNS KYRGYZ RETURN OF UZBEK ASYLUM SEEKERS
By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) has \"expressed shock at the deportation of four Uzbek men from Kyrgyzstan and urged the Kyrgyz authorities to halt further deportations of Uzbek asylum seekers until they have gone through proper procedures to determine whether or not they are refugees under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention,\" according to a 10 June press release on the organization\'s website (http://www.unhcr.ch).ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MEETS WITH VISITING TURKISH LEGISLATOR
By empty (6/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Artur Baghdasarian met on 10 June with Turkish parliamentarian Turhan Comez (Justice and Development Party, AKP), who headed a delegation of journalists and politicians making an unofficial visit to Armenia. Baghdasarian stressed that Armenia seeks to establish normal relations with all neighboring countries, and he proposed resolving problems in bilateral relations by means of joint discussions. Baghdasarian urged Ankara to \"have the courage to acknowledge the 1915 genocide\" as a preliminary to moving forward on the road to European integration.CHECHEN AMBUSH KILLS SEVEN POLICE
By empty (6/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Seven Russian police officers have been killed in an ambush in Chechnya. The Russian interior ministry said the attack happened near Kurchaloi, south-east of the capital, Grozny. The men\'s vehicle came under fire from a grenade launcher.KYRGYZ LAWMAKER ASSASSINATED
By empty (6/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A leading Kyrgyz parliamentarian and businessman was shot dead close to the main government building in the capital, Bishkek, police said, highlighting instability in the ex-Soviet state.The assassination comes a month before a presidential election to vote for a successor to President Askar Akayev who was ousted after violent protests against a flawed parliamentary poll earlier this year. Police chief Omurbek Suvanaliyev named the parliamentarian as Zhirgalbek Surabaldiyev, but gave no further details.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.