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15 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 15 December

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN-TAJIKISTAN: Russian border forces intercept drug smugglers
Russian border guards on Wednesday intercepted a boat carrying 15 armed drug smugglers attempting to cross from Afghanistan into Tajikistan, Interfax news agency reported. The incident happened as the Afghan group were met on the bank of the river Pyandj, on the Tajik-Afghan border, by a supporting team from Tajikistan. An exchange of gunfire broke up an attempted handover and both groups fled, the report said. Two bodies in camouflage, 30 packets of heroin and two Kalashnikov automatic rifles
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12 Dec 2000

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan - Drought OCHA Situation Report No. 3

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0225
OCHA Situation Report No. 3
Uzbekistan - Drought
12 December 2000

Long-term response to be implemented in Uzbekistan

1. A joint FAO's TCOR/WFP mission visited the drought-affected regions of Karakalpakstan and Khozerm in October 2000. The mission analysed the natural and man-made causes of the drought, and made a series of recommendations to mitigate the worst effects of this and future droughts.

Impact of the drought

2. The mission confirmed there have been

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05 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 15 others
UN Conference calls for additional efforts to address desertification and drought worldwide

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— UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Bonn, 5 December 2000 - "We are ready to see if progress has been achieved in combating desertification worldwide", said today Mr. Hama Arba Diallo, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), few days before the opening of the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP-4), from 11-22 December in Bonn, Germany.
About 2,000 delegates from over 170 countries are expected to arrive in Bonn to attend the Conference, including Heads of State and of Government, ministers, representatives of intergovernmental
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28 Nov 2000

Tajikistan + 1 other
Tajikistan: Residents face harsh winter, despite energy plans

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— IRIN
Islamabad, 28 November (IRIN) - Despite international efforts to rehabilitate the ailing Tajik energy sector, current shortages of gas, coal and electricity are forcing people to take desperate measures to stay warm this winter, according to humanitarian sources.
Jan Harfst, Head of the UN Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Development Project (RRDP), told IRIN on Friday that energy shortages were not a new phenomenon. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, gas and coal imports to the republic dwindled, and the electricity grid had been neglected for the last 10 years, he said.
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27 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 7 others
Afghanistan: IRIN Special Report on Rapprochement with the Taliban

Report
— IRIN
ISLAMABAD, 27 November (IRIN) - The reality of Afghanistan is often difficult to swallow. A country ravaged by years of war - not to mention drought, poverty and hunger - Afghanistan is effectively ruled by the Taliban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan. That the Taliban controls up to 95 percent of Afghan territory is disputed by few, yet the legitimacy of the Taliban administration in Kabul is recognised by just three states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Notwithstanding that fact, there is a recent change in attitude towards the Taliban among Afghanistan's Central
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20 Nov 2000

Kazakhstan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 20 November

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— IRIN
TAJIKISTAN: Red Cross warns of starvation danger
The Red Cross warned on Monday of impending death by malnutrition and cold if humanitarian appeals for additional aid went unheeded. Tajikistan was in an "extremely serious" situation, Denis McClean of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies headquarters in Geneva told IRIN. "We are urgently appealing to donors not to allow Tajikistan to become the forgotten emergency," he added. Tajikistan is one of the Central Asian countries most affected
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14 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 14 November

Report
— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: Annan urges Pakistan and Iran to cooperate for peace
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Sunday called upon Iran and Pakistan to work more closely to bring about a lasting peace in Afghanistan.

Speaking on Sunday at the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Doha, Qatar where he reiterated the UN's commitment to finding a negotiated and peaceful solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, Annan underscored that peace would not return to the country without the support of its neighbours. He appealed to Afghanistan's

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09 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 9 November

Report
— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: Grave food crisis, says FAO
The FAO warned on Wednesday that an estimated 400,000 Afghan farmers would be missing the winter planting this month. In a special news alert in what it called a "very serious food crisis" in Afghanistan, the FAO appealed for urgent assistance to provide seeds and feed for livestock with the onset of winter. Of the nearly 300,000 mt of annual wheat seed required, there was a deficit of about 60,000 mt which meant an estimated 400,000 farmers would be missing the winter planting, the FAO reported. The drought this year had decimated
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06 Nov 2000

Uzbekistan
FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 5/00 - Uzbekistan

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
An FAO/WFP mission which visited the country in October found that lower harvests of both wheat and cotton are to be expected as a result of a shortage of irrigation water following a mild winter and poor management of water resources. The drought has had catastrophic impacts on agriculture in the down river regions of the Amu Darya, the Autonomous Region of Karakalpakstan (KK) and Khorizem, but particularly the former.
In KK, the 2000 wheat harvest (which was planted in September/October 1999 and escaped the water shortage as
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03 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 3 November

Report
— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: US Ambassador meets Taliban envoy
Amid reports of a possible US air strike on the Afghan base of Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, American embassy sources in Islamabad confirmed to IRIN on Friday that US Ambassador to Pakistan William Milam met with Taliban government envoy Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef at the American embassy on Thursday.

While the embassy official declined to disclose the details of the meeting, news sources speculated that discussions focused on the threat of possible air strikes against bin Laden, who the

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02 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 4 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 2 November

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— IRIN
TURKMENISTAN: IOM announces Tajik repatriation
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in coordination with UNHCR, on Monday repatriated 71 Tajik refugees from Turkmenistan, bringing the total number of organised returnees to 4,847 since the programme began in January 1998. The 71 returnees took a train on Monday from Turkmenabad and Mary, 500 km and 250 km east of the Turkmenistan capital of Ashgabat, where they then boarded a plane for the Tajik capital Dushanbe, the IOM announced.

Acting regional representative for IOM

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31 Oct 2000

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Final Report on the Mission for the Assessment of the Impact of the Drought on Communicable Diseases and Health, Sep/Oct 2000

Report
— World Health Organization


WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Regional Office For Europe

EMERGENCY & HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN UZBEKISTAN 2000

by H.C.A.M. van Vliet, consultant

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26 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
CIS defence ministers meet to discuss security in Central Asia

Report
— Agence France-Presse
DUSHANBE, Oct 26 (AFP) - Security threats to the Central Asian region are set to top the agenda at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) defence ministers meeting in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe Thursday.

"The military and political situation in the Central Asian region will be one of the main topics of discussion at the meeting," Tajik defence ministry spokesman Zarobiddin Sirodzhev told AFP on the eve of the session.

"Central Asia is slowly becoming the capital of international terrorism with Islamic extremists trying to

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23 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 5 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 23 October

Report
— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: Favourable conditions for aid agencies
The ruling Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have pledged to improve the working conditions of international aid agencies, the pro-Taliban Bakhtar news agency reported last week. It quoted the acting foreign minister, Mowlawi Mohammad Solei'man, as promising at a meeting with aid agency representatives in the capital, Kabul, to create favourable conditions for relief activities.

Asked about this recent development on Thursday, the UN Coordinator for Afghanistan, Erick de Mul in Islamabad,

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23 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 23 October (2)

Report
— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: UN religious intolerance report cites Taliban
A United Nations expert monitoring religious intolerance worldwide last week strongly criticised what it called the "ever-growing scourge" of religious extremism epitomised by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the case of Afghanistan deserved particular mention.

Using religion as a political tool, he said the Taliban had "taken an entire society hostage". . The greatest burden had fallen on Afghan women, who were "afflicted by

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20 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
After a brief thaw, new chill hits Tajik-Uzbek relations

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— EurasiaNet
Marat Mamadshoyev: 10/20/00

The recent insurgency against President Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan has helped introduce a new chill into Tajik-Uzbek relations. Uzbekistan's imposition of a visa regime for Tajik citizens, as well as Tashkent's decision to begin placing land mines along the border with Tajikistan, underscores how the insurgency has aggravated interstate relations.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajik-Uzbek relations have frequently been marked by tension. Authorities in Dushanbe have often been irritated with what they perceived

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18 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 5 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 18 October

Report
— IRIN
IRAN: UNHCR announces Afghan repatriation figures
Public information spokesman for UNHCR in Tehran, Mohammad Nouri, told IRIN on Wednesday that up to 14 October, the total number of returning Afghans under the joint repatriation programme with the Iranian government had reached 108,685.

Parallel to the UNHCR organised repatriation convoys, the Iranian interior ministry was facilitating the spontaneous return of Afghans. "To date, a total of 23,961 Afghan individuals have spontaneously returned to their homeland," Nouri said. He emphasised

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18 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
ICG Central Asia Briefing 18 Oct 2000

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— International Crisis Group
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Central Asia/Brussels, 18 October 2000
RECENT VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

I. INTRODUCTION

Beginning in early August, a series of violent incidents have brought more attention to the prospects for large scale conflict in Central Asia than at any time since the end of Tajikistan's civil war.1 Taliban forces launched a new offensive in northern Afghanistan, bringing that country's civil war and a potential refugee problem to the border of the ill-prepared Tajikistan. This offensive coincided with a series of low-level incursions into Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

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18 Oct 2000

Kazakhstan + 4 others
Central Asia: Building Capacities Appeal No. 01.63/2000 Situation Report No. 3

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— IFRC


period covered: July-September, 2000

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