News Digest
AZERBAIJAN MULLS STOPPING RUSSIAN GAS IMPORTS IF PRICE TOO HIGH
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan may stop imports of Russian natural gas in 2007 and seek alternatives if prices offered at upcoming talks are unacceptably high, the country\'s energy minister said Thursday. Since last year, Russian energy giant Gazprom has been pushing for \'market prices\' on the gas it sells to its ex-Soviet neighbors, which had previously been sold gas at preferential rates - in some cases, several times lower than the European level. \"If the price for natural gas is too high, Azerbaijan would refuse to buy it [from Russia],\" Natik Aliyev said adding that the country has many alternative sources of gas supplies.SOUTH OSSETIAN LEADER CALLS FOR CONDEMNATION OF GEORGIAN \'GENOCIDE\'
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Addressing a session of the parliament of the Republic of North Ossetia on October 12, Eduard Kokoity, president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia argued that the hostilities between his republic and the central Georgian government were not an inter-ethnic conflict but an act of genocide by Georgians against Ossetians, and should be condemned as such, regnum.ru reported. Kokoity further criticized the OSCE for allegedly \"fully\" supporting Georgia against South Ossetia, and the international community of \"double standards.UNIT SET UP TO TREAT HIV-POSITIVE CHILDREN IN SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (10/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The required medical and social assistance will be given to HIV-positive children and their parents in the South Kazakhstan region, Kazakh Public Health Ministry Anatoly Dernovoi said. \"The city hospital in Shymkent opened a 30-patient unit for the treatment of HIV-positive children. The supply of necessary drugs, including antiretroviral compounds, has been created.UZBEKISTAN CONFIRMS GAS PRICE HIKE FOR KYRGYZSTAN
By empty (10/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz national gas company Kyrgyzgaz has received official confirmation from Uzbek oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz that Uzbekistan intends to raise the price of the natural gas it sells Kyrgyzstan from $55 to $100 per 1,000 cubic meters starting January 1, akipress.org reported on October 11. A spokesperson for Kyrgyzgaz told the news agency that a definite price agreement would only emerge after talks scheduled for next week.Visit also
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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.