News Digest
KAZAKH PRESIDENT WRAPS UP CHINA VISIT
By empty (5/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Nursultan Nazarbaev ended his official visit to China on 19 May. On the final day of his visit, he attended a business forum in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a region that accounts for nearly 70 percent of the $3 billion annual trade volume between China and Kazakhstan. In a statement he delivered in Urumqi to the Kazakh press, Nazarbaev summed up the results of his trip, stressing the importance of Kazakhstan\'s agreement with China on the construction of the Atasu-Alashankou oil pipeline.11 INTERIOR TROOPS DIE IN CHECHNYA
By empty (5/18/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Eleven Interior Troops died in Urus- Martan district of Chechnya on Monday, a source at headquarters of the federal force in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Tuesday. \"Servicemen driving on an UAZ truck were ambushed in Urus-Martan district on Monday. Rebels blasted the vehicle and opened fire at the servicemen,\" the source said.CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN TO BUILD OIL PIPELINE
By empty (5/18/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The top oil and gas companies of China and Kazakhstan have signed an agreement to build a crude oil pipeline to help slake this country\'s insatiable thirst for fuel. State-owned China National Petroleum Corp. and Kazakhstan\'s KazMunaiGaz signed the agreement Monday to complete a 625-mile pipeline from Atasu, in northwestern Kazakhstan, to the border of China\'s northwestern Xinjiang region.CHECHEN WARLORD THREATENS RUSSIAN LEADERS
By empty (5/18/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In his statement claiming responsibility for the 9 May bomb blast in Grozny that killed six people, including pro-Moscow Chechen leader Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, radical field commander Shamil Basaev indirectly threatened to kill Russian Prime Minister Fradkov or Russian President Putin, chechenpress.com noted on 18 May. \"We are interested [to see] who will be appointed premier of Russia, Katya or Masha [the names of President Putin\'s two daughters], if, by the mercy of Allah, we carry out the special operation Moska-2 successfully,\" Basaev said.Visit also
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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.