News Digest
TOP KAZAKH, U.S. DIPLOMATS DISCUSS NAZARBAYEV\'S VISIT
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Kazakh Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev has met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington to discuss ways to further bolster the two countries\' strategic partnership and preparations for Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev\'s visit to the United States in autumn, the Kazakh embassy in the U.MEDIATORS AGAIN URGE ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS TO REACH \'COMPROMISE\'
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In a statement posted on July 3 on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, the French, Russian, and U.EUROPE LOOKS TO CASPIAN TO DIVERSIFY GAS SUPPLIES
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A southern export route for Caspian gas to Europe was first mooted after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of three new energy-rich states - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. But the idea has been given new life by recent increases in energy prices, and European concerns about the security of Russian gas supplies. Jeffrey Waterous, chairman of Global Union Energy Ventures, an investment company, says: \"Whether or not Gazprom will cut off supplies again is not the point.KASHAGAN FIELD FULL-SCALE PRODUCTION DELAYS POSSIBLE
By empty (7/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan might not start full-scale production until 2009 or 2010, Interfax said, citing Kazakh Energy Minister Baktykozha Izmukhambetov. Extra work may be needed to ensure the project operates safely, Izmukhambetov told Interfax in Astana, the Kazakh capital. Kashagan was initially scheduled to start work in 2008, the news agency said.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.