News Digest
HIGH COTTON PRICE HURTS TAJIK PRODUCERS
By empty (5/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Abdukarim Hikmatov, Tajikistan\'s deputy minister of industry, told Asia Plus-Blitz on May 18 that high domestic cotton prices are hurting Tajik producers. \"If one month ago a ton of cotton was sold for $948 to both domestic and foreign producers, the price has now gone up $109 for domestic producers,\" Hikmatov said. Hikmatov said that the price increase, which was intended to ease the debt burden on cotton growers, has put domestic textile producers at a disadvantage.PLANE CRASHES IN RUSSIA WITH 113 ABOARD
By empty (5/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An Armenian passenger plane crashed in stormy weather early Wednesday off Russia\'s Black Sea coast as it was headed in for a landing, killing all 113 people on board, emergency officials said. The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia, disappeared from radar screens about four miles from the shore and crashed after making a turn toward the Adler airport near the southern Russian city of Sochi, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said. Rescue officials in the ministry\'s southern regional branch said all 113 people aboard the plane, including six children, were killed.GEORGIA\'S THREATS TO QUIT CIS OVER WINE BAN \"CHILDISH\" – ZOURABICHVILI
By empty (5/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian leaders are being \"childish\" when they threaten to withdraw from the CIS in retaliation for Russia\'s ban on Georgian wine imports, Salome Zourabichvili, leader of the Path of Georgia party and former Georgian foreign minister, told journalists on Wednesday. \"We will quit the CIS in retaliation for your embargo on our wine. It is a childish approach and immature behavior which we need to get rid of,\" she said.IRAN CONSIDERS URANIUM ENRICHMENT CONSORTIUM WITH JAPAN
By empty (5/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran is considering the possibility of creating a uranium enrichment consortium with Japan, Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki has said. “We shall be prepared to join a consortium with Japan or any other country under the control (of the International Atomic Energy Agency) for uranium enrichment,” the chief Iranian diplomat said. (Itar-Tass).Visit also
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