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KYRGYZ FOREIGN MINISTER RULES OUT CHANCES OF PERMANENT US MILITARY PRESENCE
By empty (5/6/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Muratbek Imanaliyev today spoke out against a permanent US military presence in Kyrgyzstan. At a news conference in Bishkek, he commented on remarks made by some US politicians regarding the possibility of a lengthy stay for US military subunits on Kyrgyz territory. At the same time the minister stressed that Kyrgyzstan in every way possible supported and assisted the antiterrorist operation conducted by the international community in Afghanistan, since it had no desire for \"a source for the distribution of terrorism and instability\" in the region \"to remain there\".KYRGYZ PRESIDENT ASKS PARLIAMENT TO RATIFY BORDER AGREEMENT WITH CHINA
By empty (5/7/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an address to both chambers of the Kyrgyz parliament on 7 May, President Akaev asked deputies to ratify the 1999 border agreement with China under which Kyrgyzstan ceded to China some 95,000 hectares of disputed territory. Akaev said that he wants the agreement ratified before the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg in June.KYRGYZ PARLIAMENT DEPUTY TO SEEK PRESIDENT\'S IMPEACHMENT
By empty (5/7/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azimbek Beknazarov, whose arrest and trial earlier this year sparked the nationwide protests that culminated in the clashes on 17-18 March between police and demonstrators in Djalalabad Oblast\'s Aksy Raion, told RFE/RL\'s Bishkek bureau on 6 May that he has begun collecting the 31 signatures required to establish a special parliament commission charged with launching impeachment proceedings against President Askar Akaev. Beknazarov argued that several grounds exist for impeachment: he claimed Akaev violated the constitution by ceding Kyrgyz territory to China; by violating human rights; by being elected three times, in 1991, 1995 and 2000, although the constitution allows one individual to serve only for two presidential terms; and by giving the order to police to open fire on demonstrators in Aksy on 17 March. (RFE/RL).RUSSIAN PROSECUTORS ASK FOR U.S. HELP IN PREPARING CASE AGAINST THREE RUSSIAN CITIZENS HELD AT GUANTANAMO
By empty (5/7/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian prosecutors have asked their U.S. counterparts for legal assistance to prepare a criminal case against three Russian citizens held by U.Visit also
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