News Digest
PUTIN LASHES OUT AGAINST \"UNIPOLAR WORLD\" POLICY
By empty (12/3/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that alleged attempts to build a \"unipolar world\" were fraught with \"dangerous disproportions in economic and social development\" and with growing terrorism, organized crime, and drug traffic. \"Attempts to rebuild the multifaceted and diverse modern civilization, created by God, in line with the barrack room principles of a unipolar world appear to be extremely dangerous,\" Putin said in a speech at the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi. \"The more persistently and effectively the authors and followers of this idea act the more often mankind will come up against dangerous disproportions in economic and social development and against global threats of international terrorism, organized crime, and drug traffic,\" he said.US OFFERS OLIVE BRANCH TO TALEBAN
By empty (12/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The US ambassador to Afghanistan says that members of the Taleban who disarm will not be punished. Zalmay Khalilzad exhorted them to contact tribal elders and lay down their arms to avoid being targeted. He said that continued resistance is contrary to the will of the Afghan people and of Islam.SIX US DEAD IN AFGHAN PLANE CRASH
By empty (12/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Rescuers searching for a US military plane which went missing in Afghanistan have recovered the bodies of six passengers from the crash site. The US military says the wreckage of the aircraft was found in the central Bamiyan province. The plane was carrying three civilian crew members and three military passengers.UK ASKS KAZAKHSTAN TO CHANGE PROCEDURE FOR HIRING FOREIGNERS
By empty (12/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The UK thinks Kazakhstan\'s procedures for hiring foreign workers and issuing documents for them need to be reviewed, British Ambassador James Sharp said at a meeting with the chairman of the Kazakh Senate\'s committee on social and cultural development, Kuanysh Sultanov, in Astana on Tuesday. Sharp said that many companies in Kazakhstan are working in different industrial branches, so they have to acquire up to four different work permits for every one of their employees. The UK has suggested that Kazakhstan amend the corresponding laws to deal with this problem.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.