News Digest
TAJIKISTAN TO VET ISLAMIC CLERICS
By empty (8/6/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A commission comprising members of the governmental Council on Religious Affairs and the Council of Islamic Scholars has embarked on its annual assessment of the professional knowledge of Islamic clerics and teachers at Islamic schools and universities. This year for the first time clerics' familiarity with Tajikistan's laws relating to religious practice will also be tested. The commission is to focus this year on clerics in Sughd Oblast in northern Tajikistan.IRANIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION AND HARMONIOUS COEXISTENCE
By empty (4/23/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Mohammad Khatami, currently attending a summit of Caspian Sea littoral states to discuss the issue of how its rich resources are to be shared, Monday night [22 April] called on the states to "coexist" and "cooperate". "Tehran does not look with favour on the pursuit of national interests at the expense of the national interests of other countries," Khatami stressed at a dinner banquet tendered by his Turkmen counterpart Saparmyrat Nyyazow. "The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is anchored on ideals, mutual respect, detente, dialogue and cooperation among states in the interest of peace," he said.TURKMENISTAN HOSTS CASPIAN SUMMIT
By empty (4/23/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Leaders of all five states bordering the Caspian Sea are meeting on Tuesday in Turkmenistan to address the decade-long dispute over borders and access to the oil-rich sea. The two-day summit in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat will join the hosts with the leaders of Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. The Caspian is believed to hold the world's third largest oil reserves after the Persian Gulf and Siberia and the dispute has delayed full exploration of the sea's resources.AFGHANISTAN BACKS NATIONAL CURRENCY
By empty (4/22/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The central bank in Afghanistan has intervened to support the national currency, buying $500,000 worth of afghanis from the Kabul money market. Large amounts of afghanis were sold at the end of last week as people speculated that the currency would strengthen. The speculation actually caused the afghani to devalue.Visit also
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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.