News Digest
ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN FMS WANT PROGRESS ON KARABAKH ISSUE
By empty (11/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ministers of Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanyan of Armenia and Elmar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan told a joint news conference here on Monday night that they are intent on achieving progress in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue at their upcoming talks here. Action Plans are to be signed here on Tuesday within the framework of the policy of neighbourhood between the European Union and three Southern Caucasus countries -- Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Following the signing of those documents, the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia are to meet for bilateral talks.U.S.: SENIOR AL QAEDA LEADER CAPTURED IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan who escaped last year from Bagram prison has been captured, U.S. military sources said Monday.GEORGIA TO WEAN ITSELF FROM RUSSIAN GAS
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s head of government says his nation will cut in half its dependence on Russian natural gas by the end of this year. Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli also said that there will be more cuts in 2007 as the former Soviet state reacts to the Kremlin\'s announced plans to double the price of the heating fuel, the Wall Street Journal said Monday. Georgia is talking with Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey to secure alternative sources of natural gas, Nogaideli said.TURKMEN GOVERNMENT TRIES TO OFFLOAD LUXURY HOMES
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Turkmen government has introduced the first mortgages ever seen in the country, but high property prices coupled with the fact that the home loans will not be widely available mean that very few people will benefit, NBCentralAsia analysts say. On November 3, Saparmurat Niazov instructed the commercial Presidentbank to start issuing loans with a 15 year term and a purely symbolic annual interest rate of one per cent. But there is a catch – Niazov said the loans would only be available to people buying luxury flats in multistorey apartment blocks located in the capital Ashgabat.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.