News Digest
NATO \'MUST BOOST AFGHAN NUMBERS\'
By empty (9/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has asked the 26 members of the alliance to heed calls for more international troops for Afghanistan. He told the BBC some Nato members were carrying more of the burden than others in the fight against the Taleban. Nato leaders have asked members to pledge some 2,500 extra troops.KYRGYZSTAN’S NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE ADMINISTRATION HAND IN RESIGNATION
By empty (9/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Service senior officials have submitted their resignation. Forced to resign was deputy head of Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Service, brother of president Kurmanbek Bakiyev Janysh Bakiyev, REGNUM correspondent reports. Head of republic sanctioned his dismissal from office.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT OBJECTS TO IDENTIFICATION OF ISLAM WITH TERRORISM
By empty (9/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
It is impermissible to identify Islam with terrorism, Azeri President Ilham Aliev stated here on Monday, addressing the opening meeting of the Fifth Conference of Tourism Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference nations (OIC). The president noted that a terrible act of terrorism was committed in the United States exactly five years ago, which claimed the lives of many innocent people. The Islamic world had condemned it, he stressed.GEORGIA OPPOSITION MEMBER SENTENCED TO 2 MONTHS IN PRISON
By empty (9/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The city court of Tbilisi sentenced to two months of preliminary imprisonment on Monday Alexander Chumburidze, a Georgian citizen, who, according to the law enforcement agencies, planned to blow up the office of the ruling United National Movement Party. The court passed judgement on the basis of the application of the Tbilisi prosecutor’s office, rejecting at the same time the application of his lawyer on releasing Chumburidze on bail amounting to 10,000 lari (5,700 dollars). Alexander Chumburidze was arrested on September 8 on charges of “the intention to stage an explosion in the office of the United National Movement Party.Visit also
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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.