News Digest
KYRGYZ-UZBEK BORDER TALKS START
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A delegation of officials headed by Kyrgyzstan\'s representative to the Eurasian Economic Community Bazarbai Mambetov traveled to Tashkent on 10 March for talks on the delimitation of the border between the two countries. According to Mambetov, Uzbekistan has said it is prepared to hand over maps of the minefields laid by the Uzbek military along the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border. The promise was reportedly made during a recent telephone conversation between Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev and Uzbek Prime Minister Otkir Sultonov.U.S. IMPOSES SANCTIONS FOR EXPORTS TO IRAN, IRAQ
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The United States has imposed economic sanctions on an Indian company and a Jordanian man for selling Iraq equipment for chemical or biological weapons programs, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.PUTIN CONFERS WITH GERMAN, FRENCH LEADERS
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President Putin on 10 March held telephone consultations with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder regarding the developing situation at the United Nations, the proposed new Security Council resolution on Iraq, and the most recent reports by chief international weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohammad el-Baradei. The two leaders agreed that those reports \"provide no basis for discontinuing the inspections.\" Later in the day, Putin discussed these matters with French President Jacques Chirac, who also agreed with this conclusion.DUMA SPEAKER MEETS WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT
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Gennadii Seleznev met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on 10 March and conveyed to him an oral message from President Vladimir Putin, RTR reported. Seleznev was also harshly critical of the United States. \"Iraq will never give up, and [the United States] will break its teeth on it,\" Seleznev said.Visit also
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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.