News Digest
IRAN\'S HEAVY-WATER PROJECT COULD SPARK REGIONAL ARMED CONFLICT
By empty (8/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The inauguration of a heavy-water plant in Iran could bring closer a military action against Teheran by the United States and Israel, Geopolitical Problems Academy Vice President, retired Col. Gen Leonid Ivashov, told Interfax on Sunday. \"Undoubtedly, this could make a military action against Iran by the United States and Israel, and possibly the United Kingdom, more imminent, said Ivashov, an ex-head of the Defense Ministry\'s Main International Military Cooperation Department.CHINESE-KAZAKH POLICE EXERCISE ENDS IN CHINA
By empty (8/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A two-stage Chinese-Kazakh counterterrorism exercise ended in China\'s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on August 26. The second phase of the exercise, which followed a first phase in Kazakhstan, involved 700 policemen and 100 observers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Vyacheslav Kasimov, head of the SCO\'s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, said the exercise demonstrated regional leaders\' commitment to fighting the \"three evils\" of separatism, terrorism, and extremism.KYRGYZSTAN, UZBEKISTAN REPORTEDLY AGREE NO-VISA CROSSINGS
By empty (8/25/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have reached an agreement that will allow citizens of those two countries to spend up to 60 days in the other country without obtaining a visa. The agreement was reached during a visit by Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov to Tashkent on August 24-25, and it is expected to be signed when Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev visits Uzbekistan in the fall. (akipress.KYRGYZSTAN, UZBEKISTAN REPORTEDLY AGREE NO-VISA CROSSINGS
By empty (8/25/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have reached an agreement that will allow citizens of those two countries to spend up to 60 days in the other country without obtaining a visa. The agreement was reached during a visit by Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov to Tashkent on August 24-25, and it is expected to be signed when Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev visits Uzbekistan in the fall. (akipress.Visit also
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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.