News Digest
SWISS NGO AND OSCE START LAND-MINE REMOVAL PROJECT IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (5/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Swiss Federation for Mine Action and the OSCE Center in Dushanbe have launched the first stage of a project to remove land mines in Tajikistan. OSCE Centre Head Marc Gilbert was quoted as saying that the OSCE and several East European countries are contributing 500,000 euros ($595,000) to the project. Reportedly, 2 percent of Tajik territory -- 12,500 square kilometers -- needs to be inspected for minefields.SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION HOLDS SUMMIT
By empty (5/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao, and the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan gathered in Moscow on 29 May for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The summit approved the organization\'s budget, symbols, headquarters, and statutory documents enabling the SCO to function as a full-fledged international organization next year. Beijing was selected to host the SCO headquarters, and Bishkek will host its Regional Antiterrorism Center.ARMENIAN OPPOSITION REJECTS \'FALSIFIED\' ELECTION RETURNS
By empty (5/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Leaders of the Artarutiun election bloc told journalists in Yerevan on 27 May that they do not recognize the validity of official returns showing that Prime Minister Andranik Markarian\'s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) polled the largest number of votes in the parliamentary elections two days earlier. People\'s Party of Armenia Chairman Stepan Demirchian told RFE/RL that \"it\'s..RUSSIA SEEKS INQUIRY INTO EUROVISION VOTING
By empty (5/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
State-run ORT television has filed an official request with the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest seeking information about how the popular voting in the 24 May competition was tabulated. The Russian entry in the competition, the controversial duo t.A.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.