By empty (9/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Kazakhstan will export 1,000 tonnes of uranium ore to South Korea per year, 8under the terms of an inter-governmental agreement signed on Monday. The deal on cooperation on the peaceful uses of atomic energy was signed in Astana, following talks between Kazakh and South Korean presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev and Roh Moo Hyun. Nazarbayev said at a news conference after the signing ceremony that South Korean nuclear power plants generate 40% of electricity in that country.

By empty (9/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said that Chechen separatist emissaries Ilyas Akhmadov and Akhmed Zakayev are in fact using the information capabilities of the United States and Britain as a bridgehead for their propaganda. \"Unfortunately these individuals are taking advantage of the news scene of the United States and Britain and are actually transforming those countries into a bridgehead for their ideological activities,\" Yakovenko told a Friday briefing in Moscow. He said Russia would continue efforts to extradite the two men who were involved in terrorist activities.

By empty (9/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said the latest terrorist attacks in Russia are directly linked to the ongoing conflict in Chechnya, which can be resolved exclusively by political means. \"Politics, rather than force, is a major means for defeating terrorism. But unlike the president, I think that the terrorist attacks of the past few weeks are directly linked to the military actions in the Caucasus,\" Gorbachev said in his article published in the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper on Friday.