News Digest
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES PRESIDENTIAL RULE IN ADJARIA
By empty (5/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
By 137 votes in favor and one against, deputies approved on 6 May a resolution empowering Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to dismiss the parliament and government of the Adjar Autonomous Republic and schedule new elections. Following a protracted standoff with Saakashvili, Aslan Abashidze stepped down late the previous day as Adjar Supreme Council chairman and left Georgia for Moscow. Georgian Prosecutor-General Irakli Okruashvili said on 6 May that the guarantees of immunity that the Georgian authorities extended to Abashidze and members of his entourage will not be revoked.AJARIA WELCOMES GEORGIAN PRESIDENT
By empty (5/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Mikhail Saakashvili has arrived in the province of Ajaria to scenes of jubilation a few hours after forcing its rebel leader to resign. Aslan Abashidze ended more than a decade in power by flying with his family to Moscow after talks with a Russian envoy on Wednesday night. \"You are heroes,\" Mr Saakashvili told well-wishers from a window in Mr Abashidze\'s former residence in Batumi.PAKISTAN PROTESTS AT US INCURSION
By empty (5/5/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The spokesman for the Pakistani military, Major-General Shaukat Sultan, says his government has lodged a protest with the United States over an incursion into Pakistani territory by US forces operating in Afghanistan. General Sultan said a few US troops had strayed into Pakistani territory near the Lwara Mandi area in North West Frontier Province while hunting for al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects. He said the US troops searched a few shops and a petrol station but turned back as soon as they were informed that they were in Pakistani territory.KYRGYZ CORRUPTION FIGHTER KILLED
By empty (5/5/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Unknown assailants gunned down Chynybek Aliev, the top anticorruption official at the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, in Bishkek on 5 May. Aliev was shot several times at point-blank range on a crowded city street at 6:30 p.m.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.