News Digest
THREE ARMENIAN PARTIES AGREE TO FORM COALITION GOVERNMENT
By empty (6/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Leaders of the three major political parties that support President Robert Kocharian -- Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) Chairman and Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, Orinats Yerkir (Law-Based State) Chairman Artur Baghdasarian and Armen Rustamian of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun (HHD) -- signed a protocol on 11 June at a special ceremony at the presidential palace on forming a coalition government, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau and Armenian news agencies reported. Under the agreement, Markarian will retain the post of premier while Baghdasarian will be named parliament speaker. The HHK and HHD willeach name a deputy speaker.TAJIK PARTY CALLS FOR CANCELLATION OF REFERENDUM
By empty (6/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The National Movement of Tajikistan has sent an appeal to the countries guaranteeing the peace accord of 1997 that ended the Tajik civil war, requesting them to intervene to force the cancellation of the national referendum on a series of constitutional amendments that is scheduled for 22 June. The appeal, which was also was sent to the United States, the OSCE, the EU, and other international institutions, was quoted as asserting that the only objective of the referendum is to enable President Imomali Rakhmonov to remain in office for two more terms. His current term expires in 2006.CIS STATES REFUSE TO BACK CONTROLS ON MISSILES SALES
By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four former Soviet republics balked at a Russian proposal to tighten control over sales of shoulder-fired missiles that Moscow says have become terrorist tools, news reports said Tuesday. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov made the proposal Sunday at a meeting of defense ministers of the CIS in Kazakhstan. On Monday, CIS ministers signed an agreement on boosting controls over the sale of portable missile systems, but Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Georgia refused to sign.KAZAKH PRESIDENT DISMISSED KAZAKHSTAN\'S GOVERNMENT
By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Nursultan Nazarbayev dismissed Kazakhstan\'s government after Prime Minister Imangali Tasmagambetov tendered his resignation earlier on Wednesday, pleading an allegedly rigged confidence vote in parliament. The government rejected changes to a draft Land Code made by the lower house in April. Following that, Tasmagambetov, after consulting the Constitutional Council, proposed that parliament take a vote of confidence in the government.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.