News Digest
PAKISTAN HOPES MOSCOW WILL MEDIATE PAKISTANI-INDIAN SETTLEMENT
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Pakistan hopes that Moscow will mediate the settlement of Pakistani-Indian relations, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan noted, while talking to RIA NOVOSTI and ITAR-TASS correspondents on the eve of his visit to the Russian capital. Musharraf intends to inform the Russian leadership in great detail about the origin of the Kashmir dispute and its subsequent development, also dwelling on specific efforts being exerted in order to solve the Kashmir problem. The President of Pakistan emphasized the fact that, starting with 1947, various debates as regards the Kashmir problem were a key aspect of defusing South Asian tensions.ABKHAZ FOREIGN MINISTER PROPOSES AXING UN BODY
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Sergei Shamba said in Sukhum on 3 February that the UN-sponsored Coordinating Council intended to promote confidence-building measures between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides should be abolished unless its effectiveness improves. The Coordinating Council was established in November 1997, but has not met since January 2001. Following the standoff last April between Russian peacekeepers and Georgian troops in the Kodori Gorge, the Abkhaz said they will not participate in council sessions unless Georgia withdraws its remaining troops from the upper reaches of Kodori.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES MIXED OR EU FORCE TO REPLACE CIS PEACEKEEPERS IN ABKHAZIA
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In his regular Monday radio address, Eduard Shevardnadze suggested on 3 February that the Russian peacekeeping force currently deployed under the CIS aegis in the Abkhaz conflict zone be replaced by a force modeled on that currently deployed in the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia. That force comprises Russian, Georgian, and Ossetian service personnel. Shevardnadze also suggested that the EU might send troops from its rapid-reaction force to Abkhazia.TBILISI CRITICIZED FOR TRYING TO ISOLATE ABKHAZIA
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The Abkhaz prime minister has accused Georgia of trying to turn his republic into a reservation and to isolate its people from Russia, both politically and economically. Gennady Gagulia offered his comment on a statement from the Georgian ambassador to the UN, who, according to western media reports, accused Russia of annexing Abkhazia. \"Today, Georgia seems to continue to live in a time when citizen rights were considered worthless.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.