News Digest
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT SUPPORTS PEACE ENFORCEMENT IN ABKHAZIA
By empty (7/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The parliamentary special session on July 16 adopted a decree over Abkhazia with 147 votes to1. The decree urges the President and the executive authority to apply to the UN Security Council to enforce Chapter 7 of the UN Charter in Abkhazia, to take steps towards changing of peacekeeping operations’ mandate and prepare particular proposals over internationalization of peacekeeping operations in the conflict zone of Abkhazia. The Parliament of Georgia still adheres to the previously adopted parliamentary decrees regarding the withdrawal of Russian peacekeeping troops deployed in the conflict zone under the CIS auspices, and expresses serious concern over non-fulfillment of these decrees by the executive authority.KYRGYZ NONGOVERNMENTAL GROUP PROPOSES CIVIL-SOCIETY OVERSIGHT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT REFORM
By empty (7/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz Association of Nongovernmental and Noncommercial Organizations has proposed the creation of a council of civil-society representatives to ensure the transparency of planned reforms of the country\'s law enforcement agencies, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported on 13 July, quoting association chairman Toktaiym Umetalieva. The association has also suggested that the Internal Affairs Ministry be renamed the Law Enforcement Ministry. Umetalieva said that her group, unlike many other NGOs, supports a project to prevent mass public disturbances that is part of a 3.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT ENDORSES U.S. ELECTORAL PROPOSALS
By empty (7/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In comments in his weekly radio address on 14 July, President Eduard Shevardnadze affirmed his support for a set of U.S.-drafted electoral proposals.CHECHNYA GETS FIRST PRESIDENTIAL RUNNER
By empty (7/14/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A little-known businessman became the first person to declare his intention to run for president of Chechnya, officials said Monday, in an Oct. 5 election the Kremlin hopes will help end the nearly four-year conflict in the breakaway republic. Rebels continued their hit-and-run attacks in Chechnya, killing 10 Russian servicemen over the past 24 hours, an official in Kadyrov\'s administration said on condition of anonymity.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.