By empty (9/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has asked the 26 members of the alliance to heed calls for more international troops for Afghanistan. He told the BBC some Nato members were carrying more of the burden than others in the fight against the Taleban. Nato leaders have asked members to pledge some 2,500 extra troops.By empty (9/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Service senior officials have submitted their resignation. Forced to resign was deputy head of Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Service, brother of president Kurmanbek Bakiyev Janysh Bakiyev, REGNUM correspondent reports. Head of republic sanctioned his dismissal from office.By empty (9/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
It is impermissible to identify Islam with terrorism, Azeri President Ilham Aliev stated here on Monday, addressing the opening meeting of the Fifth Conference of Tourism Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference nations (OIC). The president noted that a terrible act of terrorism was committed in the United States exactly five years ago, which claimed the lives of many innocent people. The Islamic world had condemned it, he stressed.By empty (9/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The city court of Tbilisi sentenced to two months of preliminary imprisonment on Monday Alexander Chumburidze, a Georgian citizen, who, according to the law enforcement agencies, planned to blow up the office of the ruling United National Movement Party. The court passed judgement on the basis of the application of the Tbilisi prosecutor’s office, rejecting at the same time the application of his lawyer on releasing Chumburidze on bail amounting to 10,000 lari (5,700 dollars). Alexander Chumburidze was arrested on September 8 on charges of “the intention to stage an explosion in the office of the United National Movement Party.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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