News Digest
GEORGIA ADOPTS 15-YEAR PROGRAM FOR ERADICATING POVERTY
By empty (6/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian government on Wednesday adopted a 15-year program aimed against poverty. Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze noted that \"the program is so realistic and well-planned that its successful implementation is beyond doubt.\" The program was worked out together with international organizations and donor countries, Shevardnadze pointed out.KAZAKHSTAN OKS BORDER AGREEMENTS WITH CENTRAL ASIAN NEIGHBORS
By empty (6/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The upper house of the Kazakh parliament ratified a series of border agreements with its Central Asian neighbors Thursday, putting to rest one of the contentious issues left unresolved by the Soviet collapse. Also Thursday, lawmakers ratified an agreement with Azerbaijan over division of the Caspian Sea, debates over which have prevented tapping the vast oil resources lying beneath its waters. Kazakhstan\'s agreements with southern neighbors Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were first signed between the governments over the last decade.U.S. OBJECTS TO TAJIK CONSTITUTION CHANGE
By empty (6/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United States expressed dissatisfaction Monday with a weekend referendum in Tajikistan on a constitutional change that could allow President Emomali Rakhmonov to stay in power until 2020. \"We have repeatedly stated that a constitutional referendum in that country should meet international standards for transparency,\" State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker said.TAJIKISTAN\'S RAKHMONOV STRENGTHENS LONG-TERM GRIP ON POWER
By empty (6/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan\'s Emomali Rakhmonov took out a 17-year lease on his country\'s presidency after Tajiks voted massively for constitutional changes that allow him to stand for two more seven-year terms of office after his current mandate expires in 2006. Announcing figures reminiscent of Soviet era elections, a spokesman for the central electoral commission said that according to provisional results, 93.13 percent of voters had approved the amendments in a poll in which 96.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
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.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
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.