News Digest
UN REJECTS AFGHANISTAN CRITICISM
By empty (6/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
UN officials in Afghanistan have rejected a report by an international think-tank describing the process of choosing a new constitution for the country as flawed. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) said last week that the push towards democracy in Afghanistan lacked transparency and favoured factions already in power. But a UN spokesman in Kabul said the findings of the report were ill-informed and based on factual inaccuracies.SOME KAZAKH MINISTERS REAPPOINTED
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev on 14 June reappointed seven ministers from the previous government, khabar.kz reported. Two days after former Prime Minister Imanghaliy Tasmaghambetov submitted his government\'s resignation on 11 June, his successor, Daniyal Akhmetov, hinted that there would be little change in the ministerial line up.U.S. LAUDS ARMENIAN CRACKDOWN ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. State Department annual report on human trafficking, which was released on 11 June, commends the Armenian authorities\' efforts over the past year to crack down on that practice, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported on 14 June.CHECHEN PRESIDENT\'S ENVOY BRANDS BASAEV A WAR CRIMINAL
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a16 June interview with grani.ru that was reposted on chechenpress.com, Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov\'s envoy Akhmed Zakaev explained that Maskhadov maintains contact with radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev primarily with the aim of trying to dissuade him from launching suicide attacks and said that Basaev does not coordinate his military activities with Maskhadov.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.