Summery
Political Front
- Azerbaijani Opposition Party Postpones Rally After Refusal
Demonstrations are only allowed
in certain remote areas in Baku
BAKU -- An Azerbaijani opposition party has postponed a
protest after Baku authorities rejected a formal request to stage a protest
outside city hall, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
- International organizations to assist Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections with plans
The OSCE Office in Baku, the Council of Europe
Office in Azerbaijan and the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan will jointly present
their plans for assisting the country to prepare for the 7th of November
parliamentary elections, the OSCE official website said.
- Azerbaijani official: Government will create conditions for political parties to hold activities within law
The Azerbaijani government will create the
necessary conditions for all political parties to hold activities under the law
in the run up to the parliamentary elections. "If the activities are
conducted within the law, the government will create all necessary conditions
for this," head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Social and
Political Department, Ali Hasanov told journalists today.
Geo strategic Front
- Azerbaijan Conducts Counterterror Operations Along Russian Border
BAKU -- Azerbaijan's Interior
Ministry has announced the start of large-scale operations in the northern
Quba, Khachmaz, and Qusar districts that border on Russia, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani
Service reports. The objective of the operations, which began on April 6, is to
search for internationally wanted organized-crime and terrorist groups as well
as other criminals, and to confiscate illegal weapons.
- Azerbaijan warns against Upper Karabakh deadlock
An Azerbaijani presidential
executive said on Friday that Azerbaijan might bring a military intervention on
the table regarding Upper Karabakh dispute if peaceful means failed. Ramiz
Mehdiyev, the head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, said that
Azerbaijan preferred to solve Upper Karabakh dispute peacefully."
Economic/Energy Front
- EU Commissioner for Energy to visit Azerbaijan
EU Commissioner for Energy
Günther Oettinger will arrive in Azerbaijan next week, said the head of EU
Delegation to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia. Ambassador said that the visit showed
the significance of Azerbaijan for EU as an energy supplier.
- Fourth International Caspian Oil and Gas Trading and Transport Conference to be held in Aktau
IV International Caspian Oil and Gas Trading
and Transport Conference organized with the support of the Kazakh Ministry of
Transport and Communications, Akimat of Mangistau region, the Trade-Industrial
Chamber of Mangistau region will be held in Aktau on April 26 - 27. Representatives
of the Turkmen Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources express the interest
in participation in the conference.
- SOCAR exports over 13,000 tons of fuel in March
Marketing and economic operations
department of Azerbaijan State Oil Company (SOCAR) exported 13, 317 tons of
fuel, 177,499 tons of diesel oil, 11,309 tons of aircraft fuel and 235 tons of
gasoline in March.
Social Front
- Azerbaijani University Criticized For Poor Security One Year After Massacre
BAKU -- Azerbaijan's
Prosecutor-General's Office has warned about a lack of security measures at a
university where a massacre took place nearly one year ago, RFE/RL's
Azerbaijani Service reports. Rustam Usubov, Azerbaijan's deputy chief
prosecutor, said in a letter to Education Minister Misir Mardanov on April 2
that Baku's State Oil Academy is still unguarded and too easy for unauthorized
people to enter.
- Torrential rains paralyze life in Azerbaijan's Agsu region
Private houses and state institutions, as well
as 6 villages were flooded as a result of torrential rains in Azerbaijan's Agsu
region on April 4-5, Region State Firefighting Service reported. Some 70% of
Agsu city, more than 100 private houses, cellars, yards were flooded, movement
became difficult as a result of stream waters which appeared after the heavy
rain.
- Baku hosts conference to mark anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War
Scientific-practical conference on "Truth
and fiction about the Great Patriotic War" dedicated to 65-year
anniversary of the Victory in Great Patriotic War was held at the National
Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (ANAS) on April 8.
Political Front
Geo strategic Front
- Kazakhstan's Air Astana Suspends Flights To Bishkek
ASTANA-- Kazakhstan's main
airline, Air Astana, said today it has suspended all flights to the Kyrgyz
capital, Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
- UN Chief Calls For Total Nuclear Disarmament
UNITED NATIONS (RFE/RL) -- UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged world leaders to follow the example of
Kazakhstan and "to realize the aspiration and dream of a world free of
nuclear weapons."
Economic/Energy Front
Social Front
- Chinese Man Jailed For Attack On Kazakh Newspaper
ALMATY -- A Chinese man has been
sentenced by a Kazakh court to five days in jail for attacking the office of an
independent newspaper, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. The Almaty court found
Yan Shaolian, a shuttle trader, guilty on April 5 of attacking the Almaty
office of "Zhas alash" on March 28.
Political Front
- Kyrgyz President Won't Back Down, As Opposition Claims Power
BISHKEK (RFE/RL) -- Kyrgyz
President Kurmanbek Bakiev has said he will not relinquish power to an
opposition coalition that said it was forming an interim government in the wake
of a violent uprising. In an interview with the Russian radio station Ekho
Moskvy, Bakiev said, "I am the elected head of state and I do not accept
any defeat."
- Who Is Roza Otunbaeva?
Roza Otunbaeva says she is now
head of a temporary caretaker government.
Kyrgyz opposition leader Roza
Otunbaeva has said she is now the head of a temporary caretaker government,
after the opposition said it had taken power following violent protests in
Bishkek.
- Kyrgyz Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Beating
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- A leader of
the opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party in the southern city of Osh remains
in serious condition after being severely beaten, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service
reports. Abdykaim Kangeldiev was
attacked by unknown assailants near his house on April 3.
- Further Demonstrations In Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK (RFE/RL) -- Kyrgyz riot
police today fired tear gas and stun grenades into a crowd of hundreds of
antigovernment protesters in the capital Bishkek in a bid to disperse the crowd
amid ongoing political turmoil.
- Opposition Rallies As UN Chief Visits In Kyrgyzstan
(RFE/RL) -- UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon has chided Kyrgyzstan for its worsening human rights records in a
stinging rebuke to the country once regarded as Central Asia's most democratic
state. Ban is on the second leg of a Central Asian tour that will take also him
to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
- State Islam, Outsiders Compete For Influence In Central Asia
Muslim men pray during Friday
Prayers at a mosque in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Some Central Asians question whether
their local clerics are influenced by politics and state doctrine.
“Islam is a religion of
knowledge," the cleric told a television audience. "Unfortunately,
some people attempt to use Islam -- the religion of knowledge, goodness, and
development -- wrongly or for their own selfish ends.
Geo strategic Front
- Russia Moves Toward Recognizing New Kyrgyz Authorities; U.S. Says Undecided
Russia has moved toward
recognizing the self-proclaimed new leadership of Kyrgyzstan -- while the
United States says it has not yet decided whether to recognize the new
authorities.
President Kurmanbek Bakiev has
meanwhile rejected calls that he resign, saying he remains Kyrgyzstan's
legitimate leader -- while also acknowledging that he has been chased from the
capital Bishkek and no longer controls any real levers of power. Reports say
the security situation in Bishkek remains unstable, with gunfire and groups on
the streets reported late on April 8. The new authorities have warned that
looters could be shot.
- Kazakhstan's Air Astana Suspends Flights To Bishkek
ASTANA-- Kazakhstan's main
airline, Air Astana, said today it has suspended all flights to the Kyrgyz
capital, Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
- Support From Kyrgyz Air Base 'Temporarily Suspended'
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan
said today that flights supporting NATO operations in Afghanistan from an air
base in Kyrgyzstan have been temporarily suspended following violent political
upheaval in Bishkek. But a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security
Assistance Force, Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis, says the move has not had
any significant impact on operations or logistical support in Afghanistan.
- Otunbaeva: Air Base In Kyrgyzstan To Remain Open To U.S. Troops
The Kyrgyz opposition leader who
claims to be the leader of a temporary "caretaker government" said
today that a key air base in Kyrgyzstan will remain open to United States
military forces.
Economic/Energy Front
Social Front
Political Front
Geo strategic Front
- UN secretary-general arriving in Tajikistan today
DUSHANBE, April 5, 2010,
Asia-Plus -- The UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon is arriving in Tajikistan today afternoon, according to the Tajik
MFa information department.
Economic/Energy Front
- UN Chief Urges Central Asians To Resolve Water Issues
(RFE/RL) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
arrived in Tajikistan and plunged directly into the most controversial topic in
Central Asia -- water.
- Inflation for Jan-Feb reportedly stands at 5.4% in Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, April 3, 2010,
Asia-Plus -- In Tajikistan, inflation
for January-February this year stood at 5.4 percent, according to the CIS
Interstate Committee for Statistics. Over the first two months of this year,
the highest inflation rate among the CIS member nations has been reported in
Ukraine – 11.3 percent.
- Tajik, Russian finance ministers discuss training of specialists for Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, April 8, 2010,
Asia-Plus -- Training of personnel for Tajikistan’s financial system was
a major topic of a meeting of Tajik Finance Minister Safarali Najmiddinov
within his Russian counterpart Aleksey Kudrin that took place in Moscow in
early April on the sidelines of the fourth meeting of the council of the CIS
finance ministers and the eighth session of the Eurasian Economic Community
(EAEC) Council for Financial and Economic Policy, according to the Ministry of
Finance (MoF).
- Tajikistan-bound freight cars still being held up in Uzbekistan
DUSHANBE/QURGHON TEPPA, April 7,
2001, Asia-Plus -- Uzbekistan is
continuing to hold up cargos bound for Tajikistan, Tajik railway officials say.
Usmon Bobokalonov, the deputy head of Tajik Railways, told Asia-Plus Wednesday
afternoon that the number of Tajikistan-bound freight cars stranded on Uzbek
territory is now more than 2,000.
- Representatives of 192 UN member nations invited to attend international water conference in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, April 7, 2001,
Asia-Plus -- Dushanbe will host an
international conference on the mid-term comprehensive review of the
International Decade for Action “Water for Life” on June 8-10 this year.
According to the Tajik MFA information department, representatives of 192 UN
member nations, more than 60 international and regional organizations,
international financial institutions, NGOs, business community, as well as
international experts and researchers have been invited to attend the
conference
Social Front
- Tajikistan marks World Health Day
DUSHANBE, April 7, 2010,
Asia-Plus -- Like other countries of the
world, Tajikistan is marking World Health Day today.
According to the Ministry of
Health (MoH), they organize a mass campaign on buying shares in open
joint-stock company (OJSC) Roghun on this occasion. Some 500 people, including head of medical
centers, hospital head physicians and ordinary medical workers, are expected to
take part in this campaign, the source at a MoH said.
Political Front
Geo strategic Front
- UN Chief In Turkmenistan On First Stop Of Central Asian Tour
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
is set to meet with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on the first
stop of his tour.
United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, on the first stop
of a tour of five Central Asian countries.
- UN Secretary General arrives in Ashgabat
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
has arrived in the Turkmen capital. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov welcomed the distinguished guest at
Ashgabat international airport.
- Nicolas Sarkozy plans official visit to Ashgabat
The establishment of the
Turkmenistan-France working group on cooperation in the energy field along with
the mixed commission on economic cooperation will help coordinate the
development of relations between the two countries, said President of France
Nicolas Sarkozy in his message to President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedov.
Economic/Energy Front
- Ashgabat hosts international water use forum
On April 2, the International
Water Forum "A Drop of water is a grain of gold" has convened in
Ashgabat. During three days the participants will discuss new prospects for
cooperation in the field of water management and rational water use, introduce
themselves to the experience and latest achievements in this field.
- Turkmen President to visit EXPO 2010 in Shanghai
Turkmen President Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedov will visit Shanghai to attend festivities dedicated to the
opening of EXPO 2010 Universal Exposition.
Turkmenistan will be represented
at the World Exhibition for the first time. The pavilion area for the country's
joint exposition will exceed 1000 sq meters. It occupies the "A"
zone, one of the most advantageous locations on the "geographical
map" of the exhibition, which will also house pavilions of China, the host
country of EXPO-2010. The building's facade will be adorned by the national
flag and emblem of Turkmenistan as well as the Turkmen carpet ornaments.
Social Front
Political Front
Geo strategic Front
- UN's Ban To Meet Uzbek President Karimov
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
is scheduled today to meet with Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who has ruled
the country since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
The meeting in Tashkent comes
after a recent UN Human Rights Committee report criticized Uzbekistan and
called for a fuller investigation of the brutal suppression of a 2005 uprising
in the city of Andijon.
- President of Uzbekistan receives head of US Centcom
President of Uzbekistan Islam
Karimov received Commander of the US Central Command General David Petraeus at
Oqsaroy residence in Tashent on 6 April.
- President meets with UN Secretary General
President of the Republic of
Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met with Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United
Nations, in Oqsaroy on April 5.
- UN Secretary General visits Uzbekistan
Secretary General of the United
Nations Organization Ban Ki-Moon paid a visit to Uzbekistan on 4-5 April. The
head of the international organization initially visited Nukus, where he
participated in the presentation of the activities to improve the environmental
situation in the Aral Sea area.
- SCO RATS Council holds session in Tashkent
The 16th session of the Council
of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization was held in Tashkent on 2 April. Representatives of Kazakhstan,
China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan participated in the
meeting. The RATS Council condemned the terrorist acts that took place in
Moscow in March, leading to numerous casualties, and called for the further
consolidation of the efforts of SCO member states in fighting with terrorism.
Economic/Energy Front
- Ban Urges Restraint In Central Asia Water Dispute
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
has urged restraint in a growing dispute between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan over
the building of a massive Tajik hydroelectric dam.
Ban, who is in Tajikistan as part
of a tour of Central Asia, told reporters he is "deeply concerned"
over the dispute over the Rogun dam project. Uzbekistan fears the dam will
reduce the flow of vital water to its cotton-growing areas.
- UN's Ban Calls Aral Sea 'Shocking Disaster'
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
on a tour of Central Asia, says the depletion of the Aral Sea is one of the
planet's most shocking disasters. He is calling on Central Asian leaders to
step up cooperation in solving the environmental problems associated with the
shrinking of the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest body of fresh water.
- Uzbekistan-Vietnam business forum held
The forum of business circles of
Uzbekistan and Vietnam was held in Tashkent on 6 April. The participants of the
event considered issues of development of bilateral trade, economic and
investment cooperation. Minister of Economy of Uzbekistan Sunatilla Bekenov and
Vice Prime Minister of Vietnam Hoang Chung Hai chaired the forum.
Social Front
- UN’s Ban Calls On Uzbekistan To Improve Rights Record
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,
in Uzbekistan on the third stop on his five-nation Central Asian tour, today
told Uzbek authorities it is "time to deliver" on pledges to respect
human rights. Ban addressed a group of some 200 students at the University of
World Economy and Diplomacy, saying "you have an important place in the
universal agreements that bind us as a community of nations."
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