News Digest
U.S. GAINS INDEFINITE CONTINUED USE OF AIR BASE IN KYRGYZSTAN
By empty (7/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won assurances from top government officials in Kyrgyzstan (KEER\'-gih-stan) that the U-S can keep using an airport there to support operations in Afghanistan. But officials also note that\'s not a permanent welcome. The country\'s defense minister provided the reassurance during a news conference today with the visiting U-S official.ABKHAZIA WANTS GREATER UN ROLE IN GEORGIAN-ABKHAZIAN SETTLEMENT
By empty (7/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Abkhazia has urged the UN Security Council to increase its role in the search for a settlement in the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia, a letter by the breakaway republic\'s foreign minister Sergei Shamba says. The letter has been sent to the UN Security Council President Adamantos Vassilakis. Abkhazia also urged the UN Security Council \"to promote more actively and productively the Georgian-Abkhazian peace process under the aegis of the UN.ABKHAZIA, S. OSSETIA CONDEMN GEORGIA, MEDIATORS
By empty (7/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia may offer \"military assistance\" to each other \"if there emerges a need for mutual support,\" Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh said on Tuesday. Bagapsh issued the warning at a news conference after talks in Gagra between him and his South Ossetian counterpart, Eduard Kokoity. The Abkhaz leader said, however, that this could not been seen as a plan for a military bloc.MOSCOW DENIES ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN GEORGIAN BLASTS
By empty (7/25/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Defense Ministry has denied claims by Georgian officials that its military intelligence agents were involvement in acts of sabotage in Georgia. \"We strongly deny Georgian claims of the alleged involvement of staff members of the General Staff\'s Main Intelligence Department in acts of sabotage and terrorism in Georgia,\" a source in the ministry\'s information and public relations department told Interfax on Monday. \"Claims by the Georgian interior minister about the alleged involvement of Russian military intelligence agents in the terrorist acts and sabotage in Gori and other places in Georgia are untrue, same as Mr.Visit also
Staff Publications
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.
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.