News Digest
KEY US-RUSSIA DISPUTES FESTER DESPITE SMILES AND PROGRESS ON GEORGIA
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Critical differences between the United States and Russia went unresolved despite smiles and diplomatic niceties as Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a laundry list of US concerns to Russian President Vladimir Putin. While professing satisfaction at the current state of relations, pledging cooperation in numerous matters including space exploration and finding apparent common ground on Georgia, profound differences lingered. But both men took pains to stress that it was the closeness of ties that allowed them to speak frankly and openly with each other about disputes.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT VISITS FRANCE
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Ilham Aliyev visited France on 22-23 January on his first official state visit as president of Azerbaijan. Aliyev met in Paris on 23 January with French President Jacques Chirac to discuss bilateral relations and the prospects for resolving the Karabakh conflict, and also with Senate Chairman Francois Poncelet and Defense Minister Michelle Alliot-Marie. Aliyev expressed regret that the OSCE Minsk Group, of which France is one of the three co-chairs, has not succeeded in mediating a solution to the Karabakh conflict.UZBEKISTAN PERMITS MORE FOREIGNERS TO VISIT PRISONS
By empty (1/26/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In 2003, the Uzbek government allowed delegations from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to make 30 visits to penal establishments in the country, in some cases visiting the same facility more than once, Tribune-uz.info reported on 26 January. In 2002, the ICRC was allowed five prison visits, and in 2001 four.TURKMENISTAN SIGNS COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH WHO
By empty (1/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Turkmen government has signed an agreement with the European Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO) on cooperation in 2004-05. According to the Turkmen Health Ministry, the agreement focuses on maternal and children\'s health, reproductive health, monitoring infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, financing of health systems, and environmental influences on health. The project budget is set at $190,000.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.