News Digest
ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN EXCHANGE ACCUSATIONS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING UN DEBATE
By empty (9/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other during addresses to the United Nations General Assembly of not being interested in achieving a lasting peace settlement in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Elmar Mammadyarov, Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, told the Assembly yesterday that a recent joint environmental operation between the two countries to tackle major fires inside Nagorno-Karabakh has been “the only positive development so far.” “The occupying forces have to withdraw from the occupied territories and necessary conditions have to be in place to allow secure and dignified return of the Azerbaijani displaced persons to the Nagorno-Karabakh region and surrounding territories of Azerbaijan,” he said.GENERAL ELECTRIC GETS $650 MILLION CONTRACT FROM KAZAKHSTAN FOR 310 LOCOMOTIVES
By empty (9/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
General Electric Co. said Thursday it will supply the Kazakhstan national railway with 310 GE Evolution locomotives worth more than $650 million. The industrial and engineering conglomerate plans to build 300 engines from 2008 to 2012 at a new plant in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.MOSCOW CRIES FOUL AS GEORGIA ARRESTS FOUR RUSSIAN \'SPIES\'
By empty (9/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four Russian officers suspected of spying were arrested in Georgia, sparking furious demands in Moscow for their immediate release. \"Four Russian officers from the military intelligence service (GRU) and 12 citizens of Georgia who were spying in Tbilisi, Batumi and all over Georgian territory were arrested in a special operation,\" Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili told a press briefing. Merabishvili added that the Georgian authorities wanted to question a fifth Russian officer, who the Georgian authorities fear may attempt to flee the country via \"diplomatic channels.DISSIDENT UZBEK JOURNALIST REPORTEDLY DETAINED IN ASYLUM
By empty (9/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Jamshid Karimov, a dissident Uzbek journalist who is also the nephew of President Islam Karimov, is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand, according to the journalist\'s family. Karimov disappeared on September 12. Another journalist Ulugbek Haydarov who was arrested on September 14, has encountered health problems in detention.Visit also
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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.