News Digest
KABUL ‘FACES $ 19 M POLL SHORTFALL’
By empty (8/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United Nations says Afghanistan still faces a shortfall of $19m to fund parliamentary elections next month. A UN spokeswoman in Kabul, Ariane Quentier, said the shortfall remained despite new pledges totalling $12m in recent days. The UN drew attention to the gap last week saying international donors had failed to fully honour commitments, threatening preparations for the poll.SUSPECTED TALIBAN REBELS KILLED
By empty (8/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
US and Afghan troops have killed eight suspected Taleban militants in a lengthy gun-battle in southern Afghanistan, officials say. The clash was part of the latest of a series of military operations in Zabul province against fighters said to be loyal to the former Taleban government. Rebel fighters have intensified their attacks in the run-up to the Afghan parliamentary elections in September.KYRGYZSTAN WAITING FOR A COUNTRY TO ACCEPT UZBEK DETAINEES
By empty (8/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Prosecutor-General Azimbek Beknazarov told RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service on 4 August that Kyrgyzstan is willing to hand over 15 Uzbek citizens currently detained in Osh to any country that is willing to grant them refugee status and accept them. But they could face deportation to Uzbekistan if no one accepts them. \"Today, not one state is willing to take them,\" Beknarazov said.KYRGYZSTAN MAY ASK U.S. TO CLOSE ITS AIR BASE - EXPERT
By empty (8/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan may follow Uzbekistan\'s example and ask the United States to set a deadline for a withdrawal of its Air Force base, Valentin Bogatyryov, director of the Kyrgyz international institute of strategic studies under presidential auspices, told Interfax on Friday. \"It may happen this autumn after the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan,\" Bogatyryov said. \"As political life in Afghanistan is brought back to normal, it means that legitimate bodies of power, among them the president and parliament, should be established there.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.