News Digest
ARMENIA REJECTS AZERBAIJAN\'S CALL FOR NEW KARABAKH PEACE PLAN
By empty (1/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian rejected on 21 January Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev\'s statement the previous day that the OSCE Minsk Group is not doing enough to resolve the Karabakh conflict and should come up with a new peace proposal, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. Oskanian argued that talks should continue on the basis of agreements reached between the two sides during talks in Paris and the U.S.INGUSHETIAN PRESIDENT AGAIN RULES OUT REMERGER WITH CHECHNYA
By empty (1/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking on 21 January at a press conference in Moscow, Murat Zyazikov rejected once again the idea of reuniting Chechnya and Ingushetia as a single federation subject. Zyazikov acknowledged that the Chechen and Ingush peoples are ethnically closely related, and stressed that \"I grew up in Grozny and care about everything that is happening there.\" But he argued that reunification is inappropriate at present.SOME AZERBAIJANI DETAINEES SENTENCED, OTHERS RELEASED
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A Baku district court passed sentence on 21 January on five members of the opposition Musavat party convicted of participating in clashes with police in Baku in the wake of the 15 October presidential election. The five were sentenced to between 12 and 18 months\' imprisonment for obstructing the work of electoral commissions. Also on 21 January, 10 other people apprehended during or after the 16 October clashes were released.U.S. \'DISAPPOINTED\' BY ARMENIAN ABSENCE FROM BAKU NATO PLANNING CONFERENCE
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In a statement released on 20 January by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, the State Department expressed \"disappointment\" that an Armenian Defense Ministry delegation was unable to travel last week to Azerbaijan to attend a planning conference for military exercises to be held in Azerbaijan later this year within the framework of NATO\'s Partnership for Peace program, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported.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.