Chronology: Central Asia and Transcaucasia
1998; Middle East Institute; Volume: 52; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1940-3461
Autores Tópico(s)Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
ResumoSee also, Petroleum Affairs, Regional Affairs, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey 1997 July 19: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze visited US president Bill Clinton in Washington. Clinton indicated his desire for US involvement in the conflict over the breakaway province of Abkhazia. [7/22 FBIS] July 20: In line with the peace accord signed by Tajikistani president Emomali Rakhmonov and Unified Tajik Opposition leader Sa`id `Abdallah Nuri, the two parties each exchanged 50 prisoners of war in Childara, east of Dushanbe. [7/22 FBIS] July 22: The Military Collegium of the Azerbaijani supreme court sentenced to death a Russian, Karen Barashev, convicted of spying for Armenia. [7/25 FBIS] July 24: In Cholpun-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstani president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstani president Askar Akayev and Uzbekistani president Islam Karimov met to discuss further economic integration, as well as the coordination of political efforts on a peace settlement in Afghanistan. [7/25 FBIS] Officials in Kazakstan canceled the $600 million sale of seven electric-power stations to the Applied Energy Services corporation of the United States because of a price dispute. [7/24 WSJ] July 25: The World Bank approved a $70 million structural reform loan to Azerbaijan. [7/28 FBIS] July 27: The three-day UN-sponsored talks between representatives of Georgia and the breakaway province of Abkhazia ended with an agreement to continue talks. [7/28 FT] Aug. 2: Ukzbekistani president Karimov refused a request from UN secretary general Kofi Annan to open the Hayratan bridge connecting the Uzbekistani-Afghan border. The United Nations had wanted to use the bridge as a route to deliver humanitarian aid to northern Afghanistan and allow Tajikistani refugees to return home from the Sakhi refugee camp. [8/5 FBIS] Aug. 7: In Almaty, Kazakstan, Kazakstani prime minister Akezhan Kazhegeldin, Kyrgyzstani prime minister Apao Dzhumagulov and Uzbekistani prime minister Utkir Sultanov signed agreements on regulating migration and tariff policies. [8/29 FBIS] Aug. 9: In Dushanbe, Tajikistan, five people were killed and 12 wounded when fighting broke out in the capital between followers of Customs Committee Chairman Yoqub Salimov and the commander of the internal affairs ministry, Suhrob Qosimov. [8/12 FBIS] Aug. 10: In Tajikistan, 28 people were wounded in clashes along the Fakhrobad Pass, south of Dushanbe, as Colonel Mahmud Khgudoberdyyev's forces, allied with Salimov's forces, fought General Ghafor Mirzoyez's Presidential Guard. [8/12 FBIS] Aug. 11: In Tajikistan, government sources claimed that government forces had control of most regions surrounding Dunshanbe, except for the Kurgan Tyube region, 60 miles south of the capital, where Colonel Khgudoberdyyev had his stronghold. …
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