News Digest
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION INTO KYRGYZ BUS SLAYINGS ANNOUNCED
By empty (4/14/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz government commission created to investigate the deaths of 21 bus passengers on the highway to China in late March announced its findings on 14 April. Deputy Prime Minister Kubanychbek Jumaliev told journalists that 18 of the victims were determined to be Chinese citizens, mostly ethnic Uighurs, traveling to Kashgar on business. Their identities were established with the assistance of Chinese DNA experts, a police official told Interfax the same day.RUSSIA REFUSES TO SHUT DOWN IRAQI EMBASSY
By empty (4/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Yakovenko announced on 13 April that Russia will not comply with U.S. requests to close down the Iraqi Embassy in Moscow and to expel Iraqi Ambassador to Russia Abbas Khalaf.PUTIN CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF IRAQ
By empty (4/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin met on 11-12 April with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in St. Petersburg to discuss Iraq and the impact of the conflict there on other global hotspots, including the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the Korean Peninsula, Russian and Western media reported. During a joint press conference on 11 April, Putin said the fastest way to return Iraq to normalcy would be to administer the country under the aegis of the United Nations.AZERBAIJAN ENDORSES PAYMENTS TO LANDOWNERS FOR BAKU-CEYHAN OIL PIPELINE
By empty (4/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Azerbaijani government issued a directive on 10 April to provide financial compensation to individuals living on the route of the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The compensation is to be issued through local branches of the International Bank of Azerbaijan and will affect more than 4,300 landowners in 13 districts of Azerbaijan and 131 villages. Roughly 150 of the landowners are legal entities, including municipalities, state farms, and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.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.