News Digest
TRANSFER OF SCO ANTITERRORISM CENTER TO UZBEKISTAN EXPLAINED
By empty (9/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Foreign Minister Aitmatov explained to journalists after his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Li in Bishkek on 6 September the reasons for Kyrgyzstan\'s apparently passive acceptance of Uzbekistan\'s demand that the SCO regional antiterrorism center be located in Tashkent rather than in Bishkek, as originally planned. According to Aitmatov, the Kyrgyz request that the center be set up in Bishkek was made in 2000, in the wake of incursions into Kyrgyzstan by Islamic militants in 1999 and 2000. But since the U.AZERBAIJAN OFFERS TO RESUME TALKS WITH TURKMENISTAN OVER DIVIDING THE
By empty (9/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov offered on 8 September to resume bilateral negotiations with Turkmenistan on the division of the Caspian Sea. Khalafov explained that \"it is vitally important for both sides to agree on the middle line demarcating the Caspian Sea,\" and called for talks to resolve the status of two disputed offshore Caspian oil fields. Khalafov made the proposal at the opening meeting of the 11th session of the working group for the preparation of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat.LIVE TV POLITICAL DEBATE ENDS IN BRAWL
By empty (9/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A live television debate in the run-up to Azerbaijan\'s October presidential election ended in a brawl, and police in the oil-producing country opened a criminal case on Sunday against an opposition politician. The opposition Popular Front accused the government in the former Soviet republic of trying to discredit it over the incident. The debate on Saturday became so heated it was taken off the air.WAR ON TERROR TAXES US
By empty (9/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has acknowledged the difficulty of combating global terrorism. He was speaking during a visit to Afghanistan, which has seen a resurgence of activity by suspected Taleban fighters and their supporters. Coalition forces faced a complex task in trying to defeat groups that operated across borders, Mr Rumsfeld said in Kabul.Visit also
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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.