News Digest
CNPC WINS KAZAKH GOVT SUPPORT FOR PETROKAZ TAKEOVER
By empty (11/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan has approved the $4.2 billion takeover of oil producer and refiner PetroKazakhstan by China\'s state-owned oil firm CNPC, CNPC President Chen Geng said on Thursday. \"The president expressed his support for CNPC\'s takeover of PetroKazakhstan,\" Chen told journalists after meeting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.KYRGYZSTAN NOT CONSIDERING ANOTHER RUSSIAN AIR BASE - FOREIGN MINISTRY
By empty (11/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan has no plans to host a Russian air base in Osh, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov announced on Thursday. \"The issue of the deployment of a Russian air base in Osh is not under discussion. First, we need to create a fully-fledged air base in Kant,\" he told Interfax.CALLS FOR RUSSIAN TO LOSE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE STATUS VOICED IN BISHKEK
By empty (11/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Headquarters for the Protection of the State Language, a union of Kyrgyz non-governmental and political organizations, has called for Russian to be stripped of its status as an official language in Kyrgyzstan. \"When Russian was accepted as an official language, Kyrgyz was pushed even further back into the shadows. Russian has become the dominant language at all official levels,\" the organization\'s representative said on Thursday in Bishkek.NATO PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN S. CAUCASUS PREMATURE - MAMEDYAROV
By empty (11/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov said that the location of NATO peacekeepers in the zone of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict would be premature. \"When we are talking about peacekeeping missions, we should primarily discuss the mandate of these missions. But we have not even started developing it,\" Mamedyarov told the press.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.