News Digest
U.S. CAUTIONS GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT AGAINST DEMANDING RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS\' WITHDRAWAL
By empty (2/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Responding on 9 February to an address delivered earlier that day by Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili to the OSCE\'s Permanent Council in Vienna, U.S.Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley acknowledged that the Joint Peacekeeping Force deployed in the South Ossetian conflict zone could function more effectively, according to a press release on the website of the U.RIGHTS GROUP LOSES APPEAL TO CONTINUE WORK IN UZBEKISTAN
By empty (2/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Tashkent court on 7 February rejected Freedom House\'s appeal of an 11 January ruling suspending the organization\'s activities in Uzbekistan for six months, Freedom House reported in a press release the next day. Freedom House Executive Director Jennifer Windsor commented, \"It is clear from the Ministry of Justice\'s actions that the Uzbek government has no intention of tolerating international NGOs whose purpose is to circulate information about how genuine democratic societies operate.\" (RFE/RL).TURKISH MINISTER CONFIRMS TALKS ON TRANS-CASPIAN PIPELINE
By empty (2/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler has confirmed that Turkey and Turkmenistan are holding talks on the construction of a trans-Caspian natural gas pipeline. Guler said, \"We will go on [with] negotiations with Ashgabat on implementation of the trans-Caspian gas pipeline project. There is a contract between Turkey and Turkmenistan on gas supplies which for certain reasons had not been realized.FOUR DIE IN AFGHAN CARTOON RIOT
By empty (2/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four people have been killed and up to 20 injured in a violent protest in Afghanistan over cartoons satirising the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Police shot into a crowd of rioters in the town of Qalat as they tried to march on a nearby US military base. It brings to 10 the number of people killed in Afghan protests over the cartoons in recent days.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.