News Digest
EUROPEAN UNION CONDEMNS UZBEK REFUSAL TO ALLOW INQUIRY INTO ANDIJON VIOLENCE
By empty (7/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on 18 July issued a statement condemning \"the Uzbek authorities\' refusal to allow an independent international inquiry into the recent events in [Andijon],\" according to a press release on the EU Council\'s website (ue.eu.int).WESTERN MILITARY PRESENCE NOT NEEDED IN C. ASIA - MINISTER
By empty (7/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
There is no need for permanent Western forces in Central Asia because the situation in Afghanistan has changed, said Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov. \"The Afghan problem is being solved. There are almost no Taliban left, political stabilization is obvious, the presidential elections have been held and preparations for the parliamentary election are underway,\" Nazarov told a news conference in Dushanbe on Tuesday.OSCE \'PLEASED\' WITH KYRGYZ PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT
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OSCE special envoy Alojz Peterle met with acting First Deputy Prime Minister Kulov on 18 July to discuss Kyrgyzstan\'s recent presidential election and the country\'s progress toward democracy, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. Peterle commented, \"I\'m more than pleased that the [Kyrgyz presidential] elections were done in that way as they were done.\" He added that he feels that the new government is \"preparing themselves to do what is necessary to be done for the benefit of the country.RUSSIA AND TURKEY SEEK CLOSER ECONOMIC, SECURITY COOPERATION
By empty (7/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Talking to journalists ahead of talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his summer residence in Sochi, President Vladimir Putin said on 17 July that bilateral trade has reached $10 billion a year and that both presidents \"set an absolutely realistic task\" of bringing it to $25 billion \"within the next few years.\" Putin also noted the intensified political contacts between the two countries. In addition to bilateral trade and the expansion of energy cooperation, the two leaders also plan to discuss the situation in Iraq and the Middle East, and security problems in Central Asia and the Caucasus.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.