On November 18, 2021, Ambassador B. Amanbaev met with Distinguished Fellow of the American Foreign Policy Council, Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) Dr. Frederick Starr.

  During the meeting, B. Amanbaev provided detailed information on the current internal political processes in Kyrgyzstan, constitutional reform, and the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The Kyrgyz Representative has made a proposal to work together with CACI in order to inform the scientific and analytical circles of the United States and the world community as a whole about the political processes in the Kyrgyz Republic, in particular, in delivering of comprehensive and truthful information about the situation on Kumtor gold mine.

 Bakyt Amanbaev said that the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Zhaparov at the recent World conference in Glasgow raised the issue of melting glaciers in mountainous countries and tried to draw the attention of the world community to this problem. "In fact, the melting of perennial glaciers will lead to a reduction in the world's fresh water reserves, and the reduction of fresh water reserves will endanger the lives of people in the world," Amanbaev said and proposed to hold joint events on this topic.

Dr. Starr agreed that the melting of perennial glaciers is really a serious problem for humanity as a whole, and shared his views on how to work together in this direction and briefly informed about the activities of the Institute. In addition, the sides discussed plans to organize joint events both on a bilateral and multilateral basis.

Mr. Amanbaev expressed the Embassy's intention to constantly exchange views and information on the entire spectrum of cooperation with CACI and assured of the readiness of the Kyrgyz side to actively interact with the Institute.

It should be noted that Frederick Starr is a researcher, professor at the Paul Nitz School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and president of the Central Asia and Caucasus Research Institute. 
He is the leading U.S. expert on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union. 

He is the author of twenty books and more than two hundred articles. He has also advised three U.S. presidents on Russian/Eurasian affairs and chaired the U.S. government's Central Asian Study Group.