News Digest
U.S. allocates nearly $50 million to Tajikistan
By empty (8/22/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. government has provided Tajikistan with a $9-million interest-free credit to step up the crackdown on drug-trafficking, as well as an estimated $40 million to the country's Health Ministry to build hospitals, U.Kabul denies al-Qaeda 'regrouping'
By empty (8/20/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
PRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=Taleban fighters" The Afghan Government has sharply rejected suggestions by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that the al-Qaeda network could be regrouping in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Minister, Abdullah Abdullah, said the situation was already much better than a year ago. He said that although the war against al-Qaeda was not over, the government had managed to deny them safe havens in Afghanistan.AZERBAIJANI EX-PRESIDENT'S SUPPORTERS EVICTED FROM HEADQUARTERS
By empty (8/21/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tax officials forced members of the Committee to Protect the Rights of Ayaz Mutalibov to vacate their recently acquired office in Baku on 21 August, claiming that they have not yet signed a formal lease for the premises. Fourteen members of the committee intended to start a hunger strike on 21 August to protest the ongoing trial of five Mutalibov supporters charged with planning to stage a coup in October 2001. "Ekho" on 21 August quoted Mutalibov, who has lived in Moscow since 1992, as expressing support for the opposition's calls to boycott the 24 August referendum.GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONDEMNS RUSSIAN CONTACTS WITH ABKHAZIA
By empty (8/19/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a statement released on 19 August, the Georgian Foreign Ministry accused Moscow of encroaching on Georgia's sovereignty and demonstrating disrespect for a neighboring state by dispatching a Russian government delegation to Abkhazia earlier this month to discuss with the breakaway republic's leaders the prospects for expanding economic cooperation. The Georgian statement also criticized as "incorrect" an assertion by Russian Foreign Ministry representative Vasilii Kolotusha blaming Georgia for the outbreak of hostilities in Abkhazia in August 1992. (Caucasus Press).Visit also
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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.