News Digest
AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER URGES IRAN TO END BROADCASTS INTO SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (10/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Vilayet Guliev met with Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ahmad Qazai on 25 October and informed him of Baku\'s demand that Iran cease its \"broadcasting and unauthorized transmission of Iranian Sahar-2 television\" into Azerbaijan. Guliev criticized the Azeri-language broadcasts beamed into southern Azerbaijan for containing \"anti-Azerbaijani propaganda\" aimed at destabilizing the southern regions of the country, and faulted the Iranian government for \"interference in Azerbaijan\'s internal affairs.\" Iranian officials have claimed that the broadcasts are beyond their control, as Sahar-2 is a privately owned station and merely expresses \"its own position\" in its programs.HUNDREDS SICK WITH TYPHOID IN TAJIK CAPITAL
By empty (10/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In Dushanbe, 270 people have been diagnosed with typhoid, at least one has died, and some 500 others have been hospitalized on suspicion of having contracted the disease. The outbreak, which has prompted the government to request assistance from the local UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs, was apparently caused by a failure to chlorinate the city\'s water supply, which mainly comes from the Varzo River. Over the past few days, radio and television have been transmitting Health Ministry warnings against drinking tap water and eating unwashed fruit.RUSSIAN, KYRGYZ PRESIDENTS HAIL OPENING OF RUSSIAN AIR BASE
By empty (10/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
\"The setting up of a Russian air base in Kyrgyzstan will be a deterrent to all sorts of terrorists and extremists,\" ITAR-TASS quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying at a ceremony to open the Russian air base in Kyrgyzstan today. He added: \"One should not close one\'s eyes to the threats of terrorism coming from outside\". Putin thinks that the base \"will promote effective implementation of both national and collective tasks of the allies of Russia and Kyrgyzstan within the Collective Security Treaty (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia)\".FORMER RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER ELABORATES ON PLAN TO RECONCILE STATE,
By empty (10/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an interview with \"Argumenty i fakty,\" No. 43, former Prime Minister and Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Yevgenii Primakov detailed the so-called Primakov Pact that he proposed earlier as a means of reconciling the oligarchs and the state in the wake of the Yukos investigations. Under the proposal, the state would promise not to revise the results of the 1990s-era privatizations, while the oligarchs would agree to direct more energy-export revenues to state coffers.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.