News Digest
CHECHEN FOREIGN MINISTER AFFIRMS READINESS FOR PEACE TALKS
By empty (7/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Meeting in Berlin on July 5, diplomatic representatives abroad of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (ChRI) drafted a manifesto addressed to participants of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg reaffirming the readiness of the Chechen resistance to embark on immediate and unconditional peace talks to end the ongoing war and stabilize the situation across the North Caucasus. The manifesto, signed by ChRI Foreign Minister Akhmed Zakayev and posted on July 13 on the resistance website chechenpress.‘SUICIDE BOMBER’ IN AFGHAN ATTACK
By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A suicide bomber has driven a taxi into a convoy of US-led troops in Afghanistan, killing himself and a child, officials say. Officials say that the attack happened in the Yaqubay district of Khost province, and that two US soldiers and three other children were injured. Officials blamed the attack on al-Qaeda and Taleban militants, who have mounted a series of attacks throughout 2006.KAZAKHSTAN STARTS OIL DELIVERIES TO CHINA BY OIL PIPELINE GOING ACROSS ALATAU
By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan has begun to deliver oil to China by the oil pipeline going across Alatau to the oil storages, built in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the north-east of the country. So, the commercial operation of the first direct oil pipeline going across the Chinese border has been started, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday. According to Zhu Minjie, an officer of the Chinese customs service, within 15 days, after the filling up of the intermediary oil tank, oil will start coming to the oil refinery in Dushanzi, the biggest in China.ARMENIA WILL RAISE TERRITORIAL CLAIM AGAINST TURKEY IF “GENOCIDE” IS RECOGNIZED, PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN ILHAM ALIYEV
By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
“Armenia raises false, imaginary, unreal and faked accusations against Turkey, and try the notorious “genocide” to be approved in Europe. That is, it shows that they are in a hostile position,” said President Ilham Aliyev in an interview to Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. The Head of State then stressed, “First, there was not any genocide.Visit also
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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.
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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.