Field Reports
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN IRAN AND PROSPECTS FOR AZERBAIJAN
By Gulnara Ismailova (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
But at the same time, Azerbaijan and Iran have expanded economic cooperation during the last year. So, in comparison with 1998, trade turnover has increased by 6 and has reached US$600 million a year. Economists say at this rate, Azerbaijan-Iranian economic cooperation will increase to up to US$1 billion a year soon.AZERBAIJAN BECOMES A PIONEER IN BUILDING RELATIONS WITH CYPRUS
By Alman Mir Ismail (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The move comes several days after a group of Azerbaijani parliamentarians visited Lefkosia, the capital of the Northern Cyprus and held talks with the political leadership of the republic. Hadi Rajabli, the head of delegation, in an interview with ANS-TV said that the intention behind the trip was to lift the political and economic isolation of the island through informal meetings between Azerbaijani parliamentarians and their colleagues in Northern Cyprus.The delegation of Azerbaijani businessmen to Cyprus also includes several prominent Azerbaijani singers, as well as works of Azerbaijani artists and sculptors.
TENTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF NIYAZOV’S HEALTH PROGRAM
By Chemen Durdiyeva (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Along with other major state reforms in the country, President Saparmurad Niyazov declared “Saglyk” (health) as a National Program in 1995. The chief purpose of this program is to reconstruct the healthcare system in Turkmenistan to an utmost level, prepare new local specialists in the field and provide the nation with medical services that meet the challenges of the Golden Age of the Turkmen.Announcing similar big policies and accepting national programs for the future prosperity of the country is very widespread in Turkmenistan.
ARMENIA PLANNING TO REVISE ITS CONSTITUTION
By Grigor Hakobyan (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The current form of the Armenian Constitution has been frequently criticized by the political opposition in Armenia and most recently underwent strong criticism by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) for not providing enough checks and balances between the various branches of government. As a result of this constitutional structure, there is an enormous concentration of power in the office of the president of the country. To monitor the compliance of Armenia’s proposed constitutional amendments with PACE requirements for Armenia’s integration into European structures, the AGO group (the monitoring group of the Council of Ministers of the Council of Europe), lead by permanent German representative to the Council of Europe Roland Wegener, paid a visit to Armenia.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
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.