News Digest
DECISION ON ARMENIA'S ACCESSION TO WTO APPROVED TODAY
By empty (12/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenia's membership to WTO was formally approved at today's session of the World Trade Organization. An Armenian government delegation, led by prime minister Andranik Margarian arrived in Geneva to attend the WTO session. After a ten-year long negotiations and after bringing its trade legislation in compliance with WTO requirements Armenia applied for WTO membership in 1992.Armenian Government Accepts Russian Corporate Proposal
By empty (12/15/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
PRIVATE The Government of Armenia accepted a proposal by the Russky Alyuminy company on acquiring 100 percent of the Armenal foil-rolling factory's shares by the latter. This was disclosed here today at the Armenian Government's public-relations department. (The Armenal enterprise was known as KANAZ during the Soviet era -- Ed.Uzbekistan agrees to restructure $ 3.3 mln Moldovan debt
By empty (12/15/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The fifth session of the Moldovan-Uzbek intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation and trade ended today in Tashkent with the signing of three documents which provide for the development of Moldovan-Uzbek relations in different areas, Moldova One TV reported on 12 December. The sides also signed two agreements on cooperation in air transport and tourism: to develop a joint programme which would unite tourist routes the wine and silk routes. Banking specialists agreed to facilitate the activities of companies as regards currency repatriation.POLICE ARRESTED THREE KIDNAP SUSPECTS
By empty (12/15/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian Interior Minister said on December 14 that three persons suspected in abduction of Sadi Sharifov, father of the Russian company LUKOil's vice-president, were arrested. Narchemashvili said at the special briefing that all of them pled guilty. Kidnap suspects are Georgian citizens.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.