News Digest
ADB APPROVES NEW LOAN FOR UZBEKISTAN
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The Asian Development Bank announced on 3 May that it has approved a $38 million loan to Uzbekistan to help finance improvements to drinking-water supplies and sanitation in Khorezm Oblast and Karakalpakstan. Both regions were badly affected by drought in 2000 and 2001. (RFE/RL) .KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN HIT BY MUDSLIDES
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Mudslides in southern oblasts of Kyrgyzstan have destroyed over 300 homes in Osh Oblast in recent days, RFE/RL\'s Bishkek bureau reported. Prime Minister Bakiev traveled to Osh on 30 April to inspect the damage, which is estimated at $1.5 million.ARMENIA FAILS TO MEET PRIVATIZATION TARGET FOR 2001
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Buyers were found for only 75 percent of the 300 large and medium state-owned enterprises slated for privatization in 2001, State Property Minister David Vartanian told journalists in Yerevan on 2 May, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. As a result, Vartanian continued, revenues from privatization fell to 2.5 billion drams ($4.U.S. RESTORES AFGHAN TRADE PRIVILAGES
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US President George W Bush has given the order to resume normal trading with Afghanistan after a gap of 16 years. Normal Trade Relations (NTRs) privileges will be applied to imports from Afghanistan when the order takes effect in about a month\'s time. The imports will have the same low-tariff access to US markets as goods from all but a handful of countries.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.