News Digest
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT PROLONGS MANDATE OF IRAQ PEACEKEEPERS
By empty (12/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Parliament deputies approved on 8 December by a vote of 73 in favor, 12 against, and one abstention, to prolong for a further year the mandate of Armenia\'s peacekeeping force currently deployed in south-central Iraq as part of a Polish-led international division, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The opposition Artarutiun faction, which voted against the peacekeepers\' initial deployment one year ago, was not present in parliament for the vote. The 45 Armenian peacekeepers are almost all doctors, demining experts, or drivers of military vehicles.KAZAKH AMBASSADOR TO UK CALLS THE OSCE STATEMENT ARGUABLE
By empty (12/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Yerlan Idrissov, ambassador of Kazakhstan to Great Britain, regrets that some estimations of the presidential election in Kazakhstan in foreign media are prejudiced. He has stated this at a briefing in London organised for British MPs. \"The OSCE statement was arguable and not fully balanced,\" - the diplomat says, and, at the same time, \"many Western, particularly, British media covered only the negative part of the OSCE statement ignoring its positive part, as well as estimations by other international observers.SOUTH OSSETIA ACCUSES GEORGIA OF FRAMING ARRESTED POLICE OFFICER
By empty (12/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
South Ossetian Interior Minister Mikhail Mindzaev claimed on 8 December that Georgian police planted counterfeit U.S. dollar bills on Vyacheslav Gudiev, a South Ossetian police officer arrested in the conflict zone on 5 December.JUSTICE MINISTER DENIES SECRET PRISONS LOCATED ON AZERBAIJANI TERRITORY
By empty (12/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Reports of a secret CIA prison on Azerbaijani territory are \"an invention,\" Azerbaijani Justice Minister Fikret Mamedov told journalists in Baku on 8 December. Mamedov added that the investigation launched by the Council of Europe last month following the publication in \"The Washington Times\" of a report that the CIA transfers maintains a network of secret prisons in Europe and elsewhere where suspected terrorists are detained and questioned has nothing to do with Azerbaijan. (day.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.