Field Reports
HOSTAGE-TAKING AND UNREST IN EASTERN TAJIKISTAN
By Alexei Igushev (7/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 22 June, at 4 a.m. detachments of the Tajik Ministry of Interior together with other law enforcement military units started an operation on annihilation of illicit armed groups of Rakhmon Sanginov.
SHANGHAI: PROVIDING STABILITY TO CENTRAL ASIA?
By Maria Utyaganova, student, International Relations Department, American University in Kyrgyzstan, Bi (7/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Chinese city of Shanghai was chosen to be the place where the anniversary summit of the Shanghai Five country-members was held on June 14-15, 2001. The main agenda of the meeting was to exchange opinions on important issues in international politics, discuss the future development of the relationships between member-countries’ within the framework of the new Shanghai Organization for Cooperation, and sign a number of documents, one of which was about Uzbekistan’s accession to the organization.
Since April 1996, the presidents of Russia, China, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan get together every year to speak about regional and world problems and find solutions to them.
TAJIKISTAN: TWO TONS OF DRUGS WENT UP IN SMOKE
By Alexei Igushev (8/1/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Last week, Russian Federal border guards quartered in Tajikistan seized a record consignment of raw opium – 2.185 kilograms at one haul. Since the beginning of this year, they have seized more than 3,5 tons of drugs, out of which more than one ton is heroine produced in neighboring Afghanistan.
TAJIKISTAN: TWO TONS OF DRUGS WENT UP IN SMOKE
By Alexei Igushev (8/1/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Last week, Russian Federal border guards quartered in Tajikistan seized a record consignment of raw opium – 2.185 kilograms at one haul. Since the beginning of this year, they have seized more than 3,5 tons of drugs, out of which more than one ton is heroine produced in neighboring Afghanistan.
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