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ASTANA (TCA) — The armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on May 3 that it was suspending its participation in peace talks in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, and calling for an end to government bombardments, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — Should Central Asia care whether or not Kurds in the world will have their own home in the form of the Greater Kurdistan Republic, covering the northern regions of Iraq and Syria? The answer would be no without taking precedent mechanisms into consideration. There has been talk more than once about Kyrgyzstan being split up into North and South or Tajikistan’s east proclaiming independence, and separatist tendencies in northern Kazakhstan. Any other attempt to change the geopolitical map anywhere in the world means bad tidings for other areas suffering from either real or imaginary geopolitical threats. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Dr. Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian academic and political analyst, told Russia’s Radio Sputnik that the United States and some of its allies, including Saudi Arabia, have provided assistance to radical groups in the Middle East and Syria, adding that Washington could employ a similar approach to Central Asia. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — As the Syria peace talks in Astana have given more international exposure to Kazakhstan as a player in the region wider than Central Asia, we are republishing this article by George Voloshin, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry on March 9 said that the next international meeting on Syria within the framework of the Astana Process will be held on March 14-15 in the capital of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Is Astana going to become a regular meeting point for squabbling parties in troubled corners of the world, shooting it out at home but inclined to compromise to spare lives and economies? The results of the talks on the situation in Syria, which ended with mostly a confirmation of the status quo excluding any outlook of a longer-term political situation in Syria, are an ambiguous indication of such a prospect. UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura was quoted as stating: "Kazakhstan, under the leadership of President (Nursultan) Nazarbayev, has provided a remarkable contribution to our efforts to push for peace in Syria." Continue reading
