News Digest
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT WARNS THAT POLICE WILL MAINTAIN ORDER
By empty (4/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an interview for publication in \"Izvestiya\" circulated by his press service, President Robert Kocharian characterized the wave of opposition demonstrations that began earlier this month as \"a temporary phenomenon\" based on the mistaken perception that the so-called Rose Revolution that toppled Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze last November can be repeated in Armenia, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. Kocharian warned that while the opposition has the right to stage sit-ins and rallies, police will intervene to restore order if future opposition protests block highways or interfere with the work of state institutions. At the same time, Kocharian vowed that the government will \"work more energetically\" to reduce poverty, eradicate corruption, and improve the economic situation.SOCAL ARMENIAN-AMERICANS DEMAND U.S. RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
By empty (4/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A delegation from Southern California joined scores of other Armenian-Americans in Washington, D.C. to demand official U.EBRD TO INCREASE INVESTMENT IN SEVEN POOREST CIS COUNTRIES
By empty (4/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announces plans to increase investments in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to help them fight poverty. In order to help the seven poorest CIS nations, the EBRD is ready to take great risk and increase investments and donor financing. “The Bank is ready to take on the risk as we seek to invest more in countries at the earlier stages of transition,” EBRD President Jean Lemierre said at the Board of Governors Annual Meeting in London on April 18-19.MOSCOW WANTS FULL RIGHTS FOR TURKMEN RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS
By empty (4/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmenistan has assured Russia it will take measures to improve the situation for its Russian-speaking citizens, Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov told Interfax. He said that, taking these assurances in account, Russia \"considered it proper\" to abstain from voting on a resolution on violation of human rights in Turkmenistan during the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. \"We based this decision on the fact that so-called country resolutions, especially in the UN\'s Human Rights Commission, will hardly improve the real situation,\" Fedotov said.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.