News Digest
STATUS QUO NOT DESIRABLE IN CONFLICT ZONES - GEORGIAN PM
By empty (3/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The international community has no interest in perpetuating the status quo in the conflict zones in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali district, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said. \"It\'s clear to everyone that a perpetuation of the status quo will not advance the peace process,\" Nogaideli told the press on Sunday while commenting on his visit to the U.S.TWO SUSPECTED HUMAN BIRD FLU DEATHS REPORTED IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (3/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Bird flu is suspected to have caused human deaths in Azerbaijan. Six members of the same family were hospitalized on suspicion of contracting bird flu. Two girls, the daughters of the head of the family, died a few days ago, presumably from bird flu, Azerbaijan\'s Deputy Health Minister Abbas Velibekov told journalists on Sunday.EURASIA FOUNDATION TO HALT UZBEKISTAN PROGRAM
By empty (3/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Eurasian Foundation has decided to halt its operations in Uzbekistan. Jeff Erlich, the Eurasia Foundation\'s regional director in Uzbekistan, told tribune.uz that Uzbek authorities initiated proceedings on February 28 to stop the Eurasia Foundation from working in Uzbekistan, and the organization decided to close its Tashkent office rather than waste energy and resources on what it felt was a doomed legal struggle.UZBEK PROSECUTORS SEEKING FREEDOM HOUSE SHUTDOWN
By empty (3/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Tashkent City Court will consider a request by prosecutors seeking to shutdown the office of the U.S.-based human rights organization Freedom House in Uzbekistan on Monday, March 6, a source with the city prosecutor\'s office told Interfax on Saturday.Visit also
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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.