News Digest
ARMENIA EXPRESSES REGRET AT START OF WAR IN IRAQ
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Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told journalists in Yerevan on 20 March that \"we regret that diplomacy has produced no positive results and that Iraq\'s disarmament is not occurring peacefully,\" RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. He added that the Armenian leadership sees no point in either supporting or opposing the war, but merely hopes that it will end swiftly and without inflicting undue suffering on the Iraqi people. Also on 20 March, Armenian police spokesman Artak Vardazarian told Arminfo that security has been heightened at all strategic facilities.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR U.S. ON IRAQ
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Eduard Shevardnadze told journalists in Tbilisi on 20 March that Georgia supports the U.S. military intervention in Iraq.KAZAKHSTAN\'S LOWER HOUSE APPROVES BILL ON PRIVATIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND
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The lower house of Kazakhstan\'s parliament approved a draft Land Code in its first reading on 20 March. The draft code provides for the privatization of agricultural land, an issue that is highly controversial. Foreign individuals and legal entities may not acquire private farmland, according to the draft.RUSSIA SAID READY TO AID REFUGEES FLEEING IRAQ
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Russia is ready to provide aid, including food, to refugees expected to flee from Iraq in the event of war, Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted as saying on Wednesday. \"The Emergencies Ministry has everything necessary to react in time to developments in the refugee situation,\" Itar-Tass news agency quoted Shoigu as saying in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod. He said Russia had held talks with Iran and with the world\'s largest food aid agency, the U.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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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.