By empty (9/7/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

State Duma Speaker Gennadii Seleznev told journalists in Moscow that the Duma opposes any military operation against Iraq. "The United States and Great Britain do not understand that Iraq is not Afghanistan and that plans for a U.S.

By empty (9/9/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Residents of the village of Kara-Suu in Djalalabad Oblast on 6 September detained nine policemen in an attempt to force the authorities to release seven people taken into custody in connection with a protest meeting in Kerben in June, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. On 7 September, several hundred people demonstrated in Kara-Suu to demand the release of the seven detainees. Meanwhile, some 400 people left Tash-Komur on 6 September on a protest march to Bishkek, and reached Razan-Sai the following day.

By empty (9/9/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan Chairman Absamat Masaliev was elected the third deputy chairman of the Constitutional Council at that body's 7 September session, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Two further opposition parliament deputies, Ismail Isakov and Alisher Abdimomunov, were co-opted as council members the same day, raising the total number from 40 to 42. At its 7 September session, the council discussed at length the optimum distribution of powers between the president and parliament and the procedure for proposing, appointing, and dismissing the prime minister, state secretary, and prosecutor-general, as well as Central Election Commission (CEC) and Audit Chamber chairmen.