Word: turkmenistan
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...consensus among council members on peacekeeping - hardly surprising, since most established armies would have no greater enthusiasm than their U.S. counterparts for such a risky deployment, and a post-Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness to avert a tragedy which, he said, would make the Congo and the Balkans look like child's play...
...joins the alliance. In recent years, Uighurs, Kurds, Tibetans and Chechens have all resorted to bombs to protest oppression. The bombs may be wrong, but their struggles for self-determination, once much applauded in the West, may be legitimate. Likewise, should the ex-communist thugs who rule over Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan be given carte blanche to deal with opponents as though they were all card-carrying bin Ladenists? And how is the U.S. now to reward China for its support, however tentative? These are?or should be?real dilemmas...
...armed and militant religious movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan.) When the Russians left, Pakistan fostered the rise of the Taliban, which was viewed with equanimity by the U.S. Washington hoped the group would end Afghanistan's civil war and bring enough stability to enable exports of gas from Turkmenistan?in which U.S. companies had big interests?by routes other than through Iran or Russia. The Taliban's hostility to Tehran was more important than its medieval ideology or oppression of women...
...TURKMENISTAN An occasional base for Islamic guerrillas, its borders are filled with rebels...
...Turkmenistan, the third former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan, is less engaged with events across the border. It appears reluctant to get involved, and like its neighboring "stans" won?t act without Moscow...