News Digest
TURKMENISTAN INVITES UKRAINIAN PARTICIPATION IN CONSTRUCTION OF GAS EXPORT PIPELINE
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During talks in the Caspian port of Turkmenbashi (Krasnovodsk) on 29 April, Turkmenistan\'s President Saparmurat Niyazov suggested to his visiting Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma that Ukrainian firms could supply equipment for, or participate in, the construction of the planned pipeline to export Turkmen gas via Afghanistan and Pakistan. Niyazov is to meet next month with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to discuss that project. Niyazov and Kuchma also signed an agreement on the development of interstate relations; Kuchma affirmed after the signing ceremony that Ukraine \"is ready to develop military, economic, scientific, and cultural cooperation\" with Turkmenistan.KAZAKHSTAN\'S PRESIDENT ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT
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n his annual address to both chambers of Kazakhstan\'s parliament, Nursultan Nazarbaev expressed his support on 29 April for some parliamentarians\' proposal that a political party must collect the signatures of not less than 10 percent of the country\'s 14.8 million population in order to register. Nazarbaev also advocated increasing the powers of local administration officials on the grounds that there is what he termed \"a certain vacuum of power\" at the local level.GEORGIA APPEALS FOR FUNDS FOR EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION
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Georgian President Shevardnadze appealed to the international community on 29 April for funds to reconstruct buildings in Tbilisi damaged beyond repair in the 25 April earthquake. Tbilisi Mayor Vano Zodelava said the same day that the Georgian government will ask for a $25 million credit from international organizations. Meanwhile, persons whose homes were rendered uninhabitable or unsafe by the quake picketed the mayor\'s office on 29 April, complaining that the municipal authorities are not acting swiftly enough to provide emergency relief.HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION SAYS KYRGYZ PRESIDENT ORDERED POLICE TO OPEN FIRE ON DEMONSTRATORS
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The Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights announced in Bishkek on 29 April that it has learned from unidentified \"reliable sources\" that it was President Askar Akaev who gave verbal orders to Interior Minister Temirbek Akmataliev that police should open fire on demonstrators in Djalalabad Oblast\'s Aksy Raion on 17 March, RFE/RL\'s Bishkek bureau reported. Akaev reportedly also ordered the Defense Ministry to be ready to use force against the demonstrators. But in the absence of Defense Minister Esen Topoev, who was in Moscow, Topoev\'s deputy demanded written instructions from the president, which the latter refused to issue.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.