News Digest
PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE, SLOVENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DIMITRIJ RUPEL
By empty (9/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received at the Presidential Palace the OSCE delegation headed by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, on September 5. During the meeting the two sides discussed the negotiations on the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and prospects of the problem’s settling, the preparations for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in our country, the cooperation between Azerbaijan and OSCE, and other issues of mutual interesting.(Azertaj).ATTACKS KILL EIGHT AFGHAN POLICE
By empty (9/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least eight Afghan policemen have been killed by suspected Taleban rebels in attacks across southern Afghanistan. Three policemen were killed when rebels ambushed a convoy of trucks transporting supplies for the US military in Zabul province. Another five were killed in an attack in neighbouring Helmand province, where a candidate in forthcoming elections was seriously injured in a bomb blast.JAPANESE TOURISTS CONFIRMED DEAD
By empty (9/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Doctors say two bodies found in southern Afghanistan on Thursday are those of missing Japanese tourists. They said dental records have confirmed the identities of Jun Fukusho, 44, and Shinobu Hasegawa, 30, both teachers from Hiroshima. The head of the pathology department at Kabul University, where autopsies took place, said they had been shot dead.ACTIVISTS OF EXTREMIST MUSLIM GROUP DETAINED IN KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (9/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh law enforcement and security agencies have detained the organizers of a rally of the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Kazakhstan for its extremist views. Ten Hizb ut-Tahrir activists, among them, as was previously reported, a Russian citizen, were detained on Friday afternoon during an unsanctioned rally near the main mosque of Pavlodar, an administrative center in the northern part of the country, a police source told Interfax on Saturday. The young men \"were calling on Muslims to unite against a U.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.