News Digest
OVER 127,000 JOBLESS REGISTERED IN ARMENIA IN FIRST HALF OF 2003
By empty (8/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenia\'s economically active population in January-June 2003 averaged 1,404,100 people. Of these, 90.9 per cent, or 1,276,800 people, were employed, and 9.TURKMENBASHI AIRPORT RECONSTRUCTION IS TO FINISH SOON
By empty (8/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The new 26 000 square meters platform construction meeting ICAO international norms has been finished at the airport of Turkmenbashi city where the next annual session of the Khalk Maslakhaty (the Peoplefs Council) will take place, August 14-16, 2003. The first stage of Turkmenbashi airport modernization was completed in the framework of the Civil Aviation National Development Program two years ago. The French ⌠Thomson¡ implemented technical re-equipment of the airport by having built the new radar station covering 400 km of airspace in accordance with international standards of air traffic monitoring.AZERI PRIME MINISTER ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVED INVITATION TO PAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO TURKEY TO GET SUPPORT OF ANKARA
By empty (8/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Newly appointed Azeri prime minister Ilham Aliyev has received an invitation to pay an official visit to Turkey. The prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish media that this issue was discussed in the course of a telephone conversation between the two premiers. It should be mentioned that it will be the first official visit of the newly appointed Azeri premier to a foreign country.KAZAKHSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN ARE BEGINNING THE DEMARCATION OF BORDER
By empty (8/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The delimitation process was finished last year. It is necessary to work out 1 251 km. Both of the countries hope to finish the demarcation during 1,5 of the year.Visit also
Staff Publications
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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.