News Digest
PAKISTAN REJECTS NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR LINK
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has described as baseless reports that Pakistan has supplied equipment for North Korea's newly-revealed nuclear programme. General Musharraf said Pakistan stood by its commitment not to proliferate its nuclear technology. But a report in the New York Times newspaper quoted US officials as saying there had been a deal between the two countries.JOINT PAKISTAN-US MILITARY EXERCISES
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The commander of the American campaign in Afghanistan, General Tommy Franks, has arrived in Pakistan to watch the first joint military exercises between the two countries in four years. His visit comes a month after senior defense officials met in Pakistan to discuss restoring military ties. This new cooperation clearly stems from Pakistan's help in the war on terror.RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DENIES PLANS TO IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON GEORGIA
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Speaking on 18 October at a press conference at Interfax's Moscow office, Foreign Minister Ivanov said Moscow will not impose economic sanctions against Georgia because sanctions are not a tool of Russian diplomacy. Ivanov pointed out that such sanctions would affect primarily the population at large, who "are not responsible for some of the actions of their leaders." He added that there are no "insurmountable" obstacles to improving Russian-Georgian relations, naming as the sole factor that has undermined such good relations in recent years the presence of "international terrorists" on Georgian territory.U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN CONTINUES CENTRAL ASIA TOUR IN UZBEKISTAN
By empty (10/18/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will discuss the situation in neighboring Afghanistan and a proposed treaty to establish a nuclear weapons-free zone in Central Asia as he continued his tour of the region Friday with a visit to Uzbekistan.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.