Foreign Correspondence

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A new political movement “Kyrgyzstan” to be opened

This looks to be a second attempt to takeover Kyrgyzstan by the United States.

President Kurmanbek Bakiyev quite possibly was blackmailed into giving Rumsfeld assurances that U.S. forces can continue to use an airbase near the Kyrgyz capital to support U.S. military operations in Afghanistan as it now looks like the United States is once again attempting a takeover of Kyrgyzstan. My guess would be Bakiyev’s presidency is being threatened.

Opposition leader Rosa Otunbayeva is a former ambassador to Britain who was previously blocked from running because she had been living overseas and could be the U.S. candidate or at least one of them.

-Am


A new political movement “Kyrgyzstan” to be opened
Coordination Committee, founded by several oppositional parties and movements, which played their role in change of power in the Kyrgyz Republic, will be reorganized to “Kyrgyzstan” movement.
”The reorganization of the committee to a political movement is a requirement of time”, member of coordination committee, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosa Otunbayeva told Interfax Agency.
The new movement will include some other political parties, as well as several well-known politicians R. Otunbayeva and active vice-Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov.
In his turn, D. Usenov told journalists that co-chairmen, replacing each other according to circumstances, will lead the movement.
“Interfax”

Kyrgyzinfo, July 26
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=15739