News Digest
RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN CALLS FOR BETTER REGULATION OF TAJIK LABOR MIGRATION
By empty (4/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian State Duma Deputy Aleksandr Belyakov (Unity), co-chairman of the Tajik-Russian parliamentary commission on cooperation between the lower houses of the countries\' parliaments, said on 18 April that the two countries must do more to regulate labor migration. The commission has been meeting in Dushanbe for the last week to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues, including security and combating drug trafficking. Belyakov said that an agreement exists under which Tajikistan may send labor migrants to Russia in an organized manner, but he called for the creation in Russia of agencies or centers to protect the rights of Tajik migrants.TURKEY MAY SEND PEACEKEEPERS TO IRAQ
By empty (4/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkey has responded \"positively\" to a U.S. request for peacekeeping troops and experts to help stabilize and rebuild Iraq, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday.TURKEY\'S FM ADMITS SNAGS IN AZERI-TURKISH PIPELINE PROJECT
By empty (4/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul admitted Sunday that problems over land expropriation and taxes in Turkey are holding up work on the construction of a major oil pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey\'s Mediterranean coast. In an interview with the CNN-Turk channel, Gul confirmed that British oil multinational BP, the project operator of the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, had complained to the Turkish government over the difficulties. \"We have recently received such a letter.WEAPONS CACHE FOUND IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (4/18/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Romanian troops in Afghanistan have discovered thousands of rockets and millions of rounds of ammunition in what the US army has described as the biggest weapons cache ever found by coalition forces in the country. The Romanian soldiers found about 3,000 107mm rockets, 250,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition and about one million rounds of small arms ammunition, US military spokesman Colonel Roger King said. Around 30 anti-tank mines were also found.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.