News Digest
RUSSIA WILL NOT SUPPORT \"AUTOMATIC\" LIFTING OF U.N. SANCTIONS ON IRAQ
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Russia will not support a United States proposal to lift United Nations sanctions on Iraq unless it is confirmed that the country has no weapons of mass destruction, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said. \"This decision cannot be automatic. It requires the fulfillment of certain conditions stipulated in relevant UN Security Council resolutions on Iraq,\" Ivanov told reporters on the sidelines of a foreign policy forum in Moscow.U.S. PREPARED TO BROADEN SECURITY COOPERATION WITH UZBEKISTAN
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A session of the U.S.-Uzbekistan Security Cooperation Council was held on 14-15 April in Washington.IRAN REJECTS U.S. SAY IN IRAQ
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Iran is planning a display of military might as is leaders call on coalition forces to leave its neighbour, Iraq. Army chief Major-General Muhammad Salimi said Iran was at its highest state of preparedness and there would be a mass parade to mark Army Day on Friday. But President Mohammad Khatami has said he does not believe the US will instigate further military action in the region, where both Iran and Syria have been described by US President George W Bush as members of an \"axis of evil\".AFGHAN-PAKISTAN BORDER CLASH
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The interior minister of Afghanistan, Ali Ahmad Jalali, has said that Afghan border forces clashed overnight with Pakistani militiamen who, he said, had intruded into the southeastern province of Khost. Mr Jalali said the encounter took place around the border village of Gulam Khan, south of the town of Khost. He quoted the local police as saying that Pakistani militiamen penetrated five kilometres into Afghanistan before being forced out by Afghan border forces.Visit also
Staff Publications
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.