News Digest
RUSSIA TO APPOINT ENVOY TO ISLAMIC WORLD
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Tuesday that his ministry would soon appoint a special envoy to the Islamic world, indicating that Moscow was moving to mend ties that have been frayed by its increasing closeness with Israel and disputes over the war in mostly Muslim Chechnya. At a joint news conference with Abdelouahed Belkeziz, the secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ivanov sought to play up shared views. \"Our positions on many international issues are either close or identical,\" he said, adding that Moscow and the OIC could improve their cooperation.RUSSIA SEES NO GROUNDS FOR USE OF FORCE IN IRAQ
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia said Wednesday it saw no grounds for the use of force against Iraq, calling on the international community to allow U.N. weapons inspectors more time to continue their work, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.UN PRAISES TALEBAN'S ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN
By empty (5/2/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United Nations top refugee official left the Taleban headquarters in southern Afghanistan yesterday without the temporary truce he was seeking, but praising the Islamic militia for virtually wiping out the production of opium, which is used to make heroin. Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters that the powerful governor of southern Kandahar, Mullah Mohammed Hasan, promised to take his appeal for a temporary ceasefire to the Taleban's reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and to Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil. He said one good sign was a report by the United Nations Drug Control Programme that the Taleban have virtually eliminated poppies - the plant from which opium is extracted and made into heroin.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.