News Digest
GEORGIAN OFFICIALS REJECT PUTIN\'S KOSOVO ANALOGY
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking to journalists in Tbilisi on 31 January, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili claimed that \"most\" of the states engaged in mediating a settlement of the Kosova conflict do not agree with the argument adduced during by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his televised press conference earlier that day. Putin argued that there is a need for \"universal principles\" to find a \"fair solution\" to \"frozen\" conflicts like the one in Kosova or those in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. \"If people believe that Kosovo can be granted full independence, why then should we deny it to Abkhazia and South Ossetia?\" he asked rhetorically.KAZAKH OFFICIAL SUPPORTS EASING OF LAWS FOR MIGRANT WORKERS
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Marat Pistaev, head of the migration police in Kazakhstan\'s Interior Ministry, told journalists in Almaty on 31 January that he opposes efforts to tighten legislation on migrant workers. \"In Russia now, they want to legalize labor migration, they want up to legalize up to 1 million people who have entered legally and are working illegally,\" Pistaev said. \"We want to study their experience and then make our proposals to the Labor Ministry.POLL SHOWS JUST 17 PERCENT OF PUBLIC TRUSTS KYRGYZ PRESIDENT
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s \"Agym\" newspaper published poll results on 31 January showing that 74 percent of respondents said they distrust President Kurmanbek Bakiev. The telephone poll queried 3,416 Kyrgyz citizens in Bishkek and a number of other cities. Asked whether they trust Bakiev, 74 percent replied \"no,\" 17 percent said \"yes,\" and 9 percent said they did not know.AID PLEDGE BOOST FOR AFGANISTAN
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
International donors have said they will provide nearly $2bn (£1.1bn) in aid to help transform Afghanistan. The US has promised $1.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.