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RUSSIAN ISLAMIC LEADERS CALL FOR \'MULTIPOLAR WORLD\'
By empty (9/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A two-day conference entitled \"Russia and the Islamic World\" opened in Kazan on August 31 with calls for a \"multipolar world\" and \"partnership,\" RFE/RL\'s Tatar-Bashkir Service reported. Delegates from 15 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and from Russia, which has observer status in that body, attended the conference. About 20 million of Russia\'s 142 million people are of Islamic heritage.GUAM WANTS UN TO TAKE UP \'FROZEN\' CONFLICTS IN CIS
By empty (9/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Members-states of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) have again appealed to the UN General Assembly to include on the agenda of the 61st session an item on frozen conflicts in GUAM and their effects for international peace, security and development. \"The continuing conflicts in GUAM, namely in Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan, have been affecting the lives of over 16 million people for over 15 years and endangering international peace and security, threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of three UN member-nations,\" they say in a letter published in New York as a General Assembly document, the UN news service reported on Friday. The letter says that the situation is leading to the loss of control over significant parts of territories in the sovereign states ceasing the exodus of millions of refugees and forced migrants and obstructing the economic and social development of the nations.AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA TO HOLD TALKS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
By empty (9/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia may meet in mid-September to outline principles for resolving a long-running territorial dispute, the Azeri media said Friday. The conflict between the two former Soviet republics over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan with a largely Armenian population, first erupted in 1988 when it claimed independence from Azerbaijan to join Armenia. Over 30,000 people were killed on both sides between 1988 and 1994, and over 100 died following a 1994 ceasefire.REPORT SAYS THIRD GROUP OF ANDIJON REFUGEES TO RETURN TO UZBEKISTAN
By empty (9/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A group of 55 Uzbek refugees from Andijon is preparing to return to Uzbekistan from the United States, Uznews.net reported on August 31. The report said the group includes Yodgora Yoldosheva, the wife of Akrom Yoldoshev.Visit also
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