News Digest
BLAIR SOLD JETS AT KASHMIR TALKS
By empty (10/21/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tony Blair used a private meeting with his Indian counterpart to push the sale of British Hawk jets while urging peace with Pakistan, it has been confirmed. The prime minister raised the deal - estimated to be worth $1bn - with Atal Behari Vajpayee at Chequers on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of troops remained at a stand-off in the disputed region of Kashmir. Downing Street and the Foreign Office stressed the Hawks, made by Britain's biggest defense manufacturer BAE Systems, were training jets.UK BASE IN AFGHANISTAN TO CLOSE
By empty (10/21/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A spokesman for the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan has said Britain will close a supply base in Pakistan next month. Britain and several other members of the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, used the base at Karachi airport as a transit point for heavy equipment bound for Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in the Afghan capital Kabul, Major Gordon Mackenzie said the closure had nothing to do with any security or political concerns in Pakistan.GEORGIAN BORDER-GUARD COMMANDER GIVES DETAILS OF AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA
By empty (10/19/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Lieutenant General Valeri Chkheidze explained to journalists in Tbilisi on 19 October the precise provisions of the agreement he and his Russian counterpart Colonel General Konstantin Totskii signed in Yerevan two days earlier, Russian and Georgian news agencies reported. Chkheidze said that Russian and Georgian border guards will not conduct any joint patrols, nor will they patrol each other's territory, but will coordinate between themselves which sectors of the border to patrol. After such patrols, senior officers will meet to exchange information.RUSSIA COULD SEND 50 MILLION TONS OF OIL TO U.S. IN 2003
By empty (10/19/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking to journalists in Washington on 19 October, former Prime Minister and head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgenii Primakov said Russia is ready to supply 50 million tons (300 million barrels) of oil to the United States in 2003. Primakov argued that the supplies could reduce U.S.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.