News Digest
TURKMENISTAN IS LAYING SECOND BRIDGE TO AFGHANISTAN
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen specialists completed construction of 50th kilometers part of high-voltage power transmission lines PTL-220 Serkhetabad (former Kushka) ã Great (Afghanistan) with total length at 120 kilometers. Ashkhabadfs correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports that 100 km of this energy bridge passes via the territory of Afghanistan.DEAL TO RETURN AFGHAN REFUGEES
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The UN refugee agency and the governments of Iran and Afghanistan have signed an agreement to help repatriate Afghan refugees in Iran over the next two years. The deal allows for the gradual return of some one million Afghans still living in Iran after fleeing fighting in their own country. Afghanistan is keen to control the numbers of those who return to avoid putting too much pressure on its fragile economy.WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS HIGHLY ESTIMATES KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (6/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) highly estimates the role of Kazakhstan and, in particular, of the head of state, \"in the issues of friendship, good relations and neighbours of Kazakhstan\", Israel Zinger, chairman of WJC, said on 17 June in Astana after his meeting with the president of RK Nursultan Nazarbayev. I. Zinger especially noted N.UZBEK OPPOSITION PARTY HOLDS CONGRESS IN TASHKENT
By empty (6/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The unregistered Uzbek opposition party Erk held its first congress in 10 years in Tashkent on 14 June. Erk, the first opposition political party registered after Uzbekistan became independent, lost its registration, as did the Birlik Movement from which Erk originated, in 1993. Since then, its members have frequently been harassed by the authorities.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.