News Digest
NEW GEORGIAN LEADERSHIP NAMES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
By empty (11/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a joint press conference in Tbilisi on 26 November, the three opposition leaders who spearheaded the campaign for President Shevardnadze\'s resignation in the wake of the rigged 2 November parliamentary elections announced the nomination of a single candidate, National Movement Chairman Mikhail Saakashvili, for the preterm presidential election scheduled for 4 January. Acting President Nino Burdjanadze said the decision to align behind a single candidate was dictated by the need to \"preserve and protect the achievement we have won together with the Georgian people.\" Saakashvili said that Burdjanadze, whom he termed \"the most attractive political face in Georgia,\" will head the opposition list of candidates in the parliamentary ballot, for which no date has yet been set.UZBEKISTAN MISSES ANNUAL COTTON GOAL
By empty (11/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Bad weather has put an end to Uzbekistan\'s annual cotton harvest and, according to preliminary data from the country\'s Agriculture Ministry, only 2.856 million tons of cotton was gathered this year. The independent news agency zamon.TURKMEN STATE AND OPPOSITION MARK ANNIVERSARY OF PURPORTED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
By empty (11/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The state-controlled Turkmen media marked the first anniversary of an alleged assassination attempt against President Saparmurat Niyazov on 25 November 2002 by publishing a commentary distributed by the Turkmen State News Agency calling on the population to rally more closely behind the president. The same day, the Turkmen opposition website gundogar.org posted a report on a meeting of opposition figures in Vienna on 23-24 November to mark the anniversary and to discuss ways of promoting democratization in Turkmenistan and removing Niyazov.KAZAKHSTAN INQUIRES ABOUT ITS CITIZENS AT GUANTANAMO
By empty (11/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev told Interfax-Kazakhstan on 25 November that his ministry is trying to determine whether any Kazakh citizens were among the prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on 17 November. Toqaev said the Kazakh side has been discussing with its U.S.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.