News Digest
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION STAGES NEW PROTEST DEMONSTRATION
By empty (4/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several thousand people attended a further demonstration convened in Yerevan on 27 April by the Artarutiun opposition bloc to demand the resignation of President Robert Kocharian, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The organizers postponed their planned march on the presidential palace from 27 April to 4 May, saying they will give the authorities a final chance to stage a nationwide referendum of confidence in Kocharian. They also stressed they did not want to exacerbate tensions on the eve of a 28 April discussion of the political situation in Armenia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe spring session in Strasbourg.KAZAKH DEFENSE MINISTER BOOSTS CHINA TIES
By empty (4/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Defense Minister Colonel General Mukhtar Altynbaev and his Chinese counterpart Cao Gangchuan signed a cooperation agreement in Peking on 27 April. Under the agreement, China will provide the Kazakh Army with aid worth 8 million yuans ($967,000). Between 1997 and 2003, Kazakh armed forces received 30 million yuans in aid from China.U.S. CALLS FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION IN ADJARIA
By empty (4/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told journalists in Washington on 27 April after talks with visiting Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania that the United States hopes the Georgian central government will prove able to find political and economic solutions to the outstanding issues within the state of Georgia without recourse to violence.US CHIDES ALLIES ON AFGHANISTAN
By empty (4/26/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United States\' ambassador to Nato, Nicholas Burns, has called on countries without troops tied up in Iraq to do more in Afghanistan. Speaking as he arrived in Kabul for a meeting of the 26 member Nato council, Ambassador Burns said Afghanistan was the alliance\'s top priority. He said he was confident that allied governments would provide the troops.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.