News Digest
KAZAKHSTAN, GEORGIA TO DRAFT AGREEMENT ON KAZAKH GAS SUPPLIES
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The Georgian and Kazakh prime ministers agreed to start drafting an agreement on Kazakh natural gas supplies at a meeting in Kazakhstan\'s capital, Astana, the Georgian prime minister\'s office said Friday. Georgian premier Zurab Nogaideli and his Kazakh counterpart Danial Akhmetov said natural gas would be supplied to Georgia at mutually beneficial prices in coordinated volumes. Nogaideli said Georgia\'s natural gas needs would double or triple in the next few years in comparison with 2005.KAZAKHSTAN AIMS TO BE TOP URANIUM PRODUCER
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Kazakhstan said Friday it plans to work with two Japanese companies to become the world\'s top uranium producer within five years. State-owned KazAtomProm will work with Sumitomo Corp. and Kansai Electric Power Co.CHECHEN ASYLUM SEEKERS IN SLOVAKIA NOT MISTREATED – EMBASSY
By empty (11/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Slovak Embassy in Moscow has denied allegations made in the media that Chechen refugees arrested for illegally entering Slovakia are kept in prison-like camps near Bratislava. Media reports said that about 40 Chechens staying in such camps were not permitted to leave their premises or to receive visitors, that they were dressed in convict\'s clothes, that guards with dogs escorted them to the canteen, that they received practically no medical assistance despite some of them, including children and pregnant women, being sick, that they were denied the services of lawyers and interpreters and that the camps looked like prisons. (Interfax).NEW UZBEK DEFENCE CHIEF NAMED
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Uzbekistan\'s hardline President Islam Karimov has named the head of the country\'s security council as his new defence minister. Ruslan Mirzayev got the job despite being one of 12 men named by the EU this week as subject to travel restrictions. The EU said the measure was a response to the Uzbek government\'s crackdown on the town of Andijan in May.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.