News Digest
KAZAKH PRESIDENT OPENS HIGH-TECH PARK
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Nursultan Nazarbaev inaugurated Kazakhstan\'s largest information-technology (IT) park outside the former capital Almaty on September 15. The new IT park, located within the special economic zone established in 2003 in the village of Alatau, seeks to attract global IT companies and aims to emerge as an \"intellectual center\" for the region. Nazarbaev said that nearly a dozen of the world\'s leading IT and communication companies have already committed to offices and training centers in the Alatau IT City information-technology park.KYRGYZ PRESIDENT DISMISSES CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION
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Speaking during a session of parliament, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev dismissed on September 14 opposition demands calling for his resignation over the escalating political crisis involving an alleged conspiracy to discredit opposition leader Omurbek Tekebaev. Bakiev argued that \"there are no reasons or circumstances for my resignation\" and challenged the opposition to seek his impeachment \"in accordance with the law.\" Opposition deputies are leading a mounting demand for an official clarification of the circumstances around the recent arrest of Tekebaev in Poland after members of the Kyrgyz National Security Service (SNB) allegedly planted drugs in his luggage (RFE/RL).BAKIYEV DENIES MEETING BEREZOVSKY
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has denied meeting with businessman Boris Berezovsky. \"I have never seen or met him,\" Bakiyev said at the parliament on Thursday. The parliament was informed on Tuesday that Berezovsky allegedly visited Kyrgyzstan and met with Bakiyev in late July.GEORGIA, TAJIKISTAN TO BE PREVENTED FROM VOTING AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Ten states, including Georgia and Tajikistan, will not be able to participate in voting in the United Nations\' General Assembly, due to their failure to pay their fees to the UN, the UN News Center said on Thursday. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sent a letter to the chairman of the General Assembly saying that the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe. (Interfax).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.