News Digest
FOUR CIS STATES TO ADOPT A SINGLE ECONOMIC TERRITORY PLAN
By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus will sign in September a concept of a single economic territory of the four nations, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told reporters on Tuesday. He said a high-level group was working on the draft concept that is likely to be completed this month. The creation of a common economic territory does not substitute the current integration associations, including the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Euro-Asian Economic Community, Nazarbayev said.KARABAKH WAR VETERANS DEMAND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT\'S RESIGNATION
By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Movement of Karabakh War Veterans issued a statement in Baku on 11 June calling on President Aliev to resign, Turan reported. The statement blames Aliev for the deterioration in the socioeconomic and military-political situation in Azerbaijan, for the emigration of hundreds of thousands of people in search of employment, and for failing to liberate Azerbaijani territory occupied by Armenian forces. (Turan).MORE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES NOMINATED IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At its fourth congress in Baku on 11 June, the pro-presidential Ana-Vatan party nominated two candidates for the 17 October presidential election --incumbent President Heidar Aliev and his son Ilham. Neither man is a member of Ana-Vatan. Also on 11 June, delegates to a congress of the Adalet Party unanimously proposed the party\'s Chairman Ilyas Ismailov as its presidential candidate.UZBEKISTAN RESTRICTS USE OF ALL BORDER CROSSINGS FROM TAJIKISTAN
By empty (6/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan has sharply reduced travel from Tajikistan through all 16 border crossings with that country but failed to inform Tajik authorities officially of its action, the head of the border control department of the Tajik Border Protection Committee, Boris Sarikaev, told Asia-Plus Blitz on 10 June. The restrictions are ostensibly intended to prevent the spread of SARS, although no cases of the disease have been registered in Tajikistan. According to Sarikaev, the Tajik authorities learned of the restrictions from unofficial sources.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.