News Digest
BUSH, POWELL URGE KYRGYZSTAN PRESIDENT TO ADOPT DEMOCRATIC REFORMS
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PRIVATEPresident Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell told Kyrgyzstan's president on Monday that his nation's support of the U.S. war on terror does not give him a green light to undermine democracy.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT ON RESULTS OF HIS VISIT TO RUSSIA
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PRIVATEThe signing of an agreement on division of the Caspian Sea floor between Russia and Azerbaijan is the major result of Azerbaijani President Geidar Ali yev's visit to Moscow. Having spent several years working out the details of the document, the sides met on Monday and divided adjacent sections of the Caspian to the mutual contentment of Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, Aliyev told the students of Moscow's elite Institute of Foreign Relations. The president said he hoped Iran and Turkmenistan too would find a solution to the problem of dividing adjacent sections of the Caspian.RUSSIA, AZERBAIJAN SIGN AGREEMENT ON DIVIDING CASPIAN
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In Moscow on Monday, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Heydar Aliyev signed an agreement on the division of contiguous sectors of the Caspian Sea. The document stipulates that the two countries will divide the Caspian seabed and its resources "based on a median line drawn at an equal distance [from the coasts] and modified at the parties' agreement and taking into account commonly recognized international legal standards and the practice established in the Caspian." Russia previously signed a similar document with Kazakhstan.AFGHANISTAN SCRAPS CUSTOM TARIFFS
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Afghanistan is to stop collecting customs tariffs on exports in order to boost trade and help rebuild its shattered economy, the country's finance minister has said. He made the pledge a week ahead of a 60-nation meeting in Washington to co-ordinate aid for Afghanistan and discuss the best use of about $4.5bn of promised donations.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.