Field Reports
ENCLAVE POLITICS BETWEEN BISHKEK AND TASHKENT POISON RELATIONS
By Maria Utyaganova, student, department of International Relations, American University in Kyrgyzstan (5/9/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Soviet legacy has left the Central Asian states with many disputed lands that have a potential of growing into serious conflicts. The delimitation of the 1920s was aimed at dividing Turkistan in such a way that the newly formed republics would become constituting parts of one industrial whole, rather than to create solid nation-states. Among other, this led to the creation of numerous enclaves of one republic surrounded by the territory of another.
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL IMPORTANCE OF GEORGIAN COAL
By Zaza Gordeziani (5/9/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On March 23, 2001 President Shevardnadze issued Decree no. 107 On Political Support and Promotion of Implementation of the Project of Constructing the 2x125 MW Thermal Station Working on Tkibuli Coal in Tkibuli. The thermal station construction project provides an investment of US$30 million for the restoration of the coal industry in Tkibuli.
KYRGYZSTAN UNDER THE SPECTER OF ISLAMIC MILITANTS
By Gulzina Karym Kyzy (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Because of the awaited incursions of Islamic militants, the evacuation of local people from high mountain areas of the Batken province of Kyrgyzstan have begun. Servicemen of the Ministry of Extreme Situations have already moved the first group of settlers, which includes 4 families of shepherds and 300 sheep, from the most remote pastures of the province to a more secure place. The Ministry of Extreme Situations does not exclude the possibility of resettling several thousand locals from the six most dangerous ‘breakthrough areas’ of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
KYRGYZSTAN’S BORDER RIDDLE
By Maria Utyaganova, department of international Relations, American University of Kyrgyzstan (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The second half of this spring could be characterized as the period of unveiling different secret documents between Kyrgyzstan and its neighboring states. Just a month ago, at the end of April, the Bakiev-led government was forced to denounce the Kyrgyz-Uzbek secret memorandum on regulating a legal basis of the state borders delimitation between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The memorandum has provoked a lot of negative attitudes towards the government, the Prime Minister in particular, and its policies.
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