News Digest
TEN PARTIES RUNNING FOR CHECHEN PARLIAMENT
By empty (10/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
GROZNY. Oct 8 (Interfax) - Ten political parties have nominated candidates to run in the Chechen parliamentary elections, due to be held on November 27, 2005, said Chechen Elections Commission Chairman Ismail Baikhanov. A total of 265 people are standing for election to the parliament as of October 8, including 65 planning to run for Council of the Republic mandates and 200 for the People\'s Assembly, Baikhanov told Interfax on Saturday.IRAN DOES NOT OBJECT TO U.S. RADAR STATION IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (10/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran has nothing against the Azerbaijani-American project of building radar stations in Azerbaijan, member of the Iranian delegation to the talks on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Movsum Baharvend, has said. \"Iran is not opposed to other countries fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and other crimes,\" he told a Friday news conference in Baku after the 18th session of the working group drafting the convention on the legal status of the Caspian. \"All five littoral states are interested in fighting smuggling.US SENATE BLOCKS UZBEK PAYMENT
By empty (10/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The US Senate has voted to block a $23m payment to Uzbekistan, after the Uzbek government ended an agreement for US troops to use an airbase there. The payment, for past use of the base, will be postponed for at least a year. The Karshi-Khanabad base has been an integral part of US military operations in the region for nearly four years.GEORGIA WITHDRAWING FROM MOSCOW UNESCO OFFICE
By empty (10/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia has decided to withdraw from the Moscow UNESCO office, a source in the Georgian Foreign Ministry told Interfax on Wednesday. A note of protest containing this decision has been handed to UNESCO Deputy General Director Marcio Barbosa. The Moscow UNESCO office posted a map of Georgia on its website that did not include Abkhazia and South Ossetia.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.
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