News Digest
U.S. SENATOR MEETS UZBEK PRESIDENT, DISCUSSES COOPERATION. U.S.
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Senator Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiana), chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told journalists in Tashkent on 19 August that he has discussed cooperation between the United States and Uzbekistan in health care and in developing agriculture and small business during his meetings with President Islam Karimov and Foreign Minister Sodik Safaev in Samarkand that day.TURKMEN HELSINKI GROUP FOUNDED IN BULGARIA
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A group calling itself the Turkmen Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights held its first meeting in Sofia on 19 August. According to the group\'s chairman, Kadzhigul Bekmetova, the Bulgaria-based organization has 16 members, nine of whom are ethnic Turkmen. An unspecified number live in Turkmenistan.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT THREATENS TO BLOCK RUSSIA\'S ACCESSION TO WTO
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Addressing a government session in 20 August, Eduard Shevardnadze noted that Russia will need Tbilisi\'s support for its bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), and should therefore resolve its problems in bilateral relations with Georgia. Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili listed among those problems Russia\'s economic ties with the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia and its failure to prevent the smuggling of contraband into Georgia from North Ossetia. (Interfax).AZERBAIJANI ORGANIZATION PROTESTS CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS\' VISIT TO
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The Baku-based Organization for the Liberation of Karabakh addressed a request on 20 August to the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan to clarify the rationale for the visit on 19 August of a group of congressional staffers to the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).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.