News Digest
GEORGIAN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS BEGIN TALKS IN SOCHI
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Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze traveled to Sochi on 6 March and held a first round of talks there that evening with Russian President Putin. Georgian officials said the talks would focus on the Abkhaz conflict, the situation in Georgia\'s Pankisi Gorge, the future of the two Russian military bases in Georgia, and the framework agreement between the two countries that is currently under discussion. A second meeting between the two presidents is scheduled on 7 March.UNESCO ASKED TO INVESTIGATE DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN CEMETERY IN AZERBAIJAN
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The President of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) Michael Petzet has applied to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) requesting it dispatch a team of experts to evaluate the destruction of the Armenian cemetery in the Jugha region (presently Julfa) in the Azerbaijani enclave of Nakhichevan that previously housed around 3000 Khachkars, and is considered to be a historical monument, Armenpress reported. The ICOMOS Armenia office recently notified the press about illegal actions taken by Azerbaijan to destroy the Jugha monuments. More recently, it called on Petzet to take appropriate measures in stopping continuous occurrences of vandalism, and asked that UNESCO mediate by sending experts (to include both Armenian and Azeris) to the area.SENIOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL CONCLUDES VISIT TO TAJIKISTAN
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A senior United Nations human rights official on March 5 concluded a three-day visit to Tajikistan, part of a trip to Central Asia to enhance dialogue and technical cooperation between the governments of the region and the UN High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR). Following-up on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan¨ˆs visit to the region last October, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, met with top government officials, including Deputy Prime Minister, Saidamir Zukhurov. Mr.REPRESENTATIVES OF CIS COUNTRIES TO DISCUSS STRENGTHENING QUESTIONS OF THE AIR BORDERS
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The meeting of the coordinative committee on the questions of the antiaircraft defense by the Ministers Council of the member states of the CIS will be held today in Moscow under the leadership of the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Forces, general colonel Vladimir Mikhailov. The representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the Ukraine will take part in the meeting. The participants of the meeting will consider more than 10 questions concerning the strengthening questions of the air borders among the countries of the Commonwealth of the Independent States.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.