News Digest
NATO CHIEF ON VISIT TO CENTRAL ASIA
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NATO on Thursday hailed the willingness of ex-Soviet Central Asia to take part in \"a united front against terrorism\", but said this fight must not be used by local rulers as a pretext to stifle domestic opposition. \"Terrorism is a clear threat to people in this region,\" George Robertson, Secretary General of the defense alliance told a news conference during a brief visit to Kazakhstan. \"Terrorists confront free society in a way that we have never seen before.ABKHAZ OPPOSITION DEMANDS ARDZINBA’S RESIGNATION
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The Amtsakhara public-political movement, consisting of the 1992-93 Abkhazian war veterans, adopted a resolution at a July 10 congress, urging de facto President of Abkhazia Vladislav Ardzinba for resignation. The Amtsakhara opposition movement claims that Ardzinba is unable to cope with the grave crime situation in Abkhazia and strengthen Abkhazia’s independence. Vladislav Ardzinba, who is undergoing a further course of treatment in Moscow, said he would not step down before his presidential term expires in October 2004.GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES FIND 25,000 BLANK RUSSIAN PASSPORTS ON TURKISH SHIP
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Georgian authorities confiscated 25,000 blank Russian passports Wednesday printed in the Russian and Abkhaz languages from a Turkish ship sailing on the Black Sea. The ship was sailing from the Turkish port of Trabzon to Sochi, Russia when stopped by the Georgian coast guard, the head of the coast guard\'s border patrol department, Koba Bochorishvili, told Georgia\'s Rustavi 2 television. The passports were confiscated as illegal cargo and the ship allowed to proceed to Sochi.U.S. AMBASSADOR SAYS RUSSIA MIGHT KNOW WHERE DEPOSED IRAQI PRESIDENT IS
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Alexander Vershbow told Interfax on 11 July that Moscow could help the United States to combat attacks on coalition forces in Iraq by people loyal to deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He urged Moscow to share with U.S.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
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Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.