News Digest
TEHERAN DOESN\'T WANT OUTSIDE COUNTRIES IN CASPIAN AFFAIRS
By empty (10/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Teheran does not want countries that are not part of the region to be involved in Caspian affairs, the Iran Embassy said in a press release on Friday. This subject was discussed yesterday during a meeting between Iran\'s Presidential Special Envoy on the Caspian Mekhdi Safari and Russian Foreign Ministry Special Envoy and Ambassador at Large Igor Savolsky. \"Russia and Iran\'s rejection of the presence of countries not part of the region in the Caspian Sea was stressed,\" said the release.ABKHAZIA TO HOLD REPEAT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
By empty (10/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Vladislav Ardzinba, president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, on Friday asked the republic\'s Central Elections Commission to schedule repeat presidential elections in the breakaway republic. In his decree, Ardzinba said the decisions made by the commission on the recent elections were made under pressure and contain contradictory information. Therefore, they cannot be used for determining the results of the elections.ARMITAGE THANKS KAZAKHSTAN FOR HELP IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ
By empty (10/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told journalists in Kazakhstan October 29 that the primary purpose of his visit was to thank the government and people of Kazakhstan for their support in Afghanistan and Iraq.TURKMENISTAN CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE AS UZBEK TIES WARM
By empty (10/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Local coverage of Turkmenistan\'s Independence Day festivities, which featured a military parade in Ashgabat on 27 October, pointed to improving relations between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. A report on Uzbek TV about the celebration across the border stressed that \"good-neighborly relations between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have advanced recently.\" Islom Bobojonov, the governor of Uzbekistan\'s Khorezm Province, met with ethnic Turkmens to mark the Turkmen holiday, the Uzbek newspaper \"Pravda Vostoka\" reported.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.