News Digest
TALIBAN SAY KILLED KIDNAPPED TURK IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Taliban guerrillas said on Tuesday they had killed a Turk kidnapped last month after the Turkish construction company he worked for ignored an ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.The Taliban, fighting an intensified insurgency across the Afghan south and east, regard companies involved in reconstruction as supporting the U.S.RUSSIAN CONVOY PREVENTED FROM CROSSING GEORGIAN BORDER
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Six vehicles carrying fuel and lubricants to Russian military bases in Georgia via Azerbaijan are not being allowed to cross the Georgian border, Deputy Commander of the Russian forces in the South Caucasus Col. Vladimir Kuparadze told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday. \"Six vehicles have been in Baku since September 7.SCO SUMMIT CONCLUDES IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (9/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A prime-ministerial summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on September 15, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service and Asia-Plus reported. Delegates of the SCO summit issued a statement pledging to improve the transport network connecting their countries and vowing to develop new energy export routes that would serve SCO member states. The statement also called for the formation of a new \"SCO Energy Club,\" in order to coordinate regional energy policy and promote cooperation in the energy sector among SCO members.OVER $53 MLN TO BE SPENT IN KAZAKHSTAN ON AIDS FIGHTING PROGRAM
By empty (9/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan has developed a programme for fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic for 2006-2010. About 6.7 billion tenge (over 53 million US dollars) are to be allotted for its implementation, Kazakhs Health Minister Yerbolat Dosayev told journalists on Monday.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.