News Digest
U.S. WELCOMES NORTHERN AFGHAN DISARMAMENT
By empty (12/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Tuesday welcomed recent moves by rival warlords to disarm their forces in the north of the country, calling on both sides to increase their efforts and surrender more weapons to the central government.Severe Cold Kills 41 Afghan Refugee Children
By empty (12/15/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Forty-one children have died of severe cold this month at camps for Afghan refugees on the border with Pakistan, an aid worker said on Sunday. Haji Abdul Ghani, of the Pakistan-based Edhi Welfare Trust, told Reuters squalid living conditions in four temporary camps in and around the southern Afghan town of Spin Boldak had combined with freezing temperatures to threaten another 1,200 children, most below the age of eight. Ghani said pneumonia, tuberculosis and malaria were the most prevalent diseases.IRAN SAYS HAS NO HIDDEN NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES
By empty (12/13/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran insisted Friday it had no hidden nuclear activities and said the International Atomic Energy Agency was welcome to inspect any nuclear facilities in the country it had information about. Reacting to comments by U.S.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT FORECASTS ACCESSION TO NATO
By empty (12/11/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia will really join NATO in two or three years, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze stated at today's meeting of the Georgian Cabinet. He called "skeptical broodings" within the country and beyond it that Georgia would need 10 to 15 years for entering this organization, groundless. In his statement, Shevardnadze stressed that Russia "is not against Georgia's accession to NATO" anymore.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.