Kyrgyzstan, China vow to enhance security cooperation
Kyrghyz President Askar Akayev has been lately in the forefront of Central Asian countries calling for vigilance against US-sponsored subversion of the "civil society", as in Ukraine and Georgia. The pro-government Kyrgyzstan Slovo newspaper commented on the Ukraine events: "The big players in world politics are showing their true colors - the usual diplomatic speeches about non-interference in the affairs of a sovereign state have been abandoned." The presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan took an open stance against the US-engineered developments in Georgia and Ukraine. #msg-4791261
Uzbekistan has been targeted for takeover or more politely an American engineered pseudo democracy. #msg-4730346
This will be interesting because the Chinese according to this text are increasing their influence in Kyrgyzstan which is next to Uzbekistan.
Kyrgyzstan is strategic in that it borders China and hosts both American and Russian bases.
It looks like China will draw the line in Kyrgyzstan.
Central Asia is full of rumors. They say that President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev signed a secret deal with China, and now neither the US nor Russia can get him replaced for a man that they would want. And such attempts have already been made. It happened more than once. Both Washington and Moscow, for example, are insisting that the Kyrgyz President should not run at the elections for the fourth time.
Presumably, Beijing offered Akaev good protection in exchange for accepting 100,000 Chinese in Kyrgyzstan. China keeps its promises. Akaev keeps his promises too. http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/article.php?id=3042
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Kyrgyzstan, China vow to enhance security cooperation
www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-10 21:42:55
ALMA-ATA, Dec. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Kyrgyzstan and China have agreed to enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism, separatism and religious extremism in the interest of regional security.
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev told Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan on Thursday that cooperation on the fight against the three forces has been fruitful and that his country is ready to strengthen cooperation in this regard.
He said political, economic and cultural cooperation has witnessed rapid development in recent years and that relations with China is a priority of his country's diplomacy.
He believed that a ten-year cooperation plan signed this year will be effectively implemented.
Tang said the year 2004 has seen significant achievements in bilateral ties, including the signing of the 10-year cooperation plan, breakthroughs in trade and economic cooperation and mutual political support.
He said China is pleased to see political stability and sustained economic growth in Kyrgyzstan.
Akayev and Tang also exchanged views on the situation in Ukraine. Both said they would respect the choice of the Ukrainian people and expressed hope for the return of stability in the country.
Tang on Friday discussed economic and trade cooperation with Prime Minister Nikolai Tanayev. They later signed a document on economic and technological cooperation.
Kyrgyz president vows to prevent Ukraine-type revolution in election year
Kyrghyz President Askar Akayev has been lately in the forefront of Central Asian countries calling for vigilance against US-sponsored subversion of the "civil society", as in Ukraine and Georgia. The pro-government Kyrgyzstan Slovo newspaper commented on the Ukraine events: "The big players in world politics are showing their true colors - the usual diplomatic speeches about non-interference in the affairs of a sovereign state have been abandoned." The presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan took an open stance against the US-engineered developments in Georgia and Ukraine. #msg-4791261
It is no secret that in these ‘democratic’ elections the United States is exercising a general influence with massive funding flowing to the candidate of choice and that whoever has access to this financial means is able to profit personally and win with the assistance of the most modern technical aids and advertising techniques available.
The countries that recognize this U.S. production so laughingly called democracy and turn away from its corruption ironically will experience the greater freedom. What good does it do a country to hold an election when the results are so heavily manipulated? What advantage is there for a country to elect officials who must put the needs of their benefactor, Washington, first? #msg-4921554
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Kyrgyz president vows to prevent Ukraine-type revolution in election year Dec 26, 16:13
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) – On Dec. 25, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev accused the West of sponsoring revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia and vowed to prevent similar scenarios in his ex-Soviet country as it holds parliamentary and presidential elections next year.
"We need to reject political forces who want to repeat the revolutionary scenarios that were used in Georgia and Ukraine and funded by Western financial groups," Akayev said in a live phone-in television session.
Akayev, who pledged to step down next year, has been alarmed by opposition protests in Georgia last year that brought down a Soviet-era leader and the recent mass protests in Ukraine that forced authorities to admit election fraud.
Kyrgyzstan is to hold parliamentary elections in February and a presidential vote in October. Akayev, president for two consecutive terms, is barred by the constitution from running again.
But Akayev, who has led the country since 1990, has circumvented the law to extend his power in the past. Elections since Kyrgyzstan's independence in 1991 have never been recognized as free and fair.
The opposition has said it will support peaceful protests if election fraud is discovered.
Akayev on Dec. 25 denounced such statements as "blackmail," saying that his government was "making every effort to make (the upcoming) elections transparent, open and fair."
At the same time he warned the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which will observe the Kyrgyz elections, and other international organizations against interference in next year's election process.
"We are against attempts by observers to act like superintendents in our election process," he said.
Akayev also used his television appearance to publicly announce for the first time the political ambitions of his daughter, Bermet Akayeva.
"She wants to create a new party that would include politicians of a new generation," Akayev said.
Akayeva is already said to be behind the pro-government Alga, Kyrgyzstan party, or Go Forward Kyrgyzstan, that involves many officials and public figures loyal to Akayev.
She is expected to run for parliament in February, although no formal announcement has been made.
I don’t always agree with Buchanan but I have no quarrel with his ‘American electoral engineering’ depiction.
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January 3, 2004
By PAT BUCHANAN
Are the neoconservatives and their neo-liberal collaborators in the global crusade for democracy pushing America into confrontation and a second Cold War with Russia? So it would seem.
Ex-CIA director James Woolsey threw out the word "fascist" on FOX News the other night in describing Putin's Russia. Earlier, he was quoted as saying, "The Russian government under Putin has moved to within striking distance of being, essentially, fascist."
Zbigniew Brzezinski in a Wall Street Journal essay last fall referred to Putin as "Moscow's Mussolini" and described his regime as "in many ways ... similar to Mussolini's fascism."
As Woolsey is a former DCI and Zbig an ex-national security adviser, Moscow is likely to regard these as fighting words. As would we, if ex-high-level officials in Russia suddenly began calling George W. Bush a fascist and our government fascistic.
But it is not only the insults that have Putin demanding to know if America intends the encirclement and isolation of Russia.
We have been pumping millions into former Soviet republics, in the hallowed name of democracy, to bring down regimes friendly to Moscow and elect politicians and parties who will break away from Russia, look to the West and join NATO, the U.S.-dominated alliance.
According to The Associated Press' Matt Kelley, America funneled $65 million into Ukraine in two years, with the money directed at dethroning the regime of President Leonid Kuchma, defeating his prime minister and designated successor Victor Yanukovich, and electing Viktor Yushchenko president.
While Yushchenko's victory in Sunday's run-off is being hailed as one of the great events of Ukraine's history, it looks suspiciously like a product of American electoral engineering.
According to Kelley, U.S. cash went to Ukraine "to train groups and individuals opposed to the Russian-backed government candidate - people who now call themselves part of the Orange Revolution."
British writer John Laughland says the youth group Pora, which took over Kiev's central square when Yushchenko appeared to have been robbed of victory in November, is, "like its sister organizations in Serbia and Georgia, Otmar and Khmara ... an organization created and financed by Washington."
According to Ian Traynor of The Guardian, U.S. agencies have perfected an operation - "engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience" - "so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections."
While the operation failed to unhorse Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, it succeeded in replacing Milosevic in Serbia, our old friend Edouard Shevardnadze in Georgia and now Kuchma-Yanukovich in Ukraine.
Among the agencies and organizations used to assist pro-West and pro-NATO parties with men, money and training are the U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiaries - the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute - Freedom House and George Soros' assorted charities.
Who chairs IRI? John McCain. Who chairs NDI? Ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Who chairs Freedom House? Ex-CIA Director Woolsey. Did the White House give these groups a green light to interfere in and tip the Ukrainian elections to Yushchenko?
Writing in The Washington Post, Hoover Institution scholar Michael McFaul concedes, "American agents of influence ... meddle(d) in the internal affairs of Ukraine," and adds that we have a moral right to do so.
Pro-democracy organizations, he says, though financed by the U.S. government, operate independently. The State Department and White House "have had almost nothing to do with the design or implementation of democracy assistance programs."
Bush's press secretary denies this. "There's accountability in place," says Scott McClellan. "We make sure that money is being used for the purposes for which it's assigned or designated."
What is the truth? Has Bush surrendered control of Russia policy to freelancers who detest Putin and want to isolate his government, or is the White House giving itself plausible deniability, while letting freelancers do the work done in Cold War days by the CIA?
If Putin is enraged, can we blame him? How we would react if the Chinese or French meddled in our elections, and then the EU and Putin denounced the 2000 Florida recount and 2004 Ohio returns as fraudulent?
Winning Russia's friendship was among the great achievements of Ronald Reagan and great dividends of our victory in the Cold War. We ought not allow unelected, foreign-policy freelancers - or rogue agencies, or non-governmental organizations - to put that vital relationship at risk.
If President Bush will not get control of NED and its progeny, or defund the rogues, or assume responsibility for them all, Congress must hold public hearings. At least let the people know who is steering us into a new Cold War with Russia and the "World War IV" that ex-Director Woolsey and his friends have in store for us.
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