KYRGYZSTAN: 31 OCTOBER - 6 NOVEMBER 2004
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Review of the week main events

1. Kyrgyz-Greek relations raised on a new level.
2. President Akayev disbands the National Council for Good Governance
3. Donor help could become 'just an instrument' in hands of the helped
countries.
4. 'Centralasiation' of the CIS is underway.
5. Akayev calls 'Transparency International' a non-transparent organization.
6. Kyrgyz authorities are insulted by comparison of their country with Burkina
Faso.
7. Kyrgyzstan has already received $500 out of $700 million promised by
donors.
8. No quorum at the lower parliamentary chamber since 19 October.
9. Opposition unites around Bakiev.
10. Kazakhstan takes under its control a gas pipeline in Kyrgyzstan.
11. Also in the week of 31 October - 6 November 2004...

1 November, Monday:

1. KYRGYZ-GREEK RELATIONS RAISED ON A NEW LEVEL. President Askar
Akayev said at a meeting with Greek President Konstandinos
Stephanopoulos in Athens on 1 November that he came to Greece to
raise the Kyrgyz-Greek relations on a new level of quality and a
base for such new relations would be laid by the agreements to be
signed. The two agreements were signed during the visit - on
cooperation in tourism and on establishing air routs between the
two countries in addition to a protocol on cooperation between
the two foreign ministries. The same day, Akayev expressed at a
meeting with speaker of the Greek parliament Anna Benaki-Psaruda
a readiness to activate the bilateral inter-parliamentarian
relations. Akayev visited also the Institute for Astrophysics
where Russian astrophysicist Aleksei Fridman gave a lecture on 1
November.

Akayev told journalists in Athens on 2 November that Greece is
ready to train Kyrgyz troops at the NATO centers in the country
free of charge in frame of the Partnership for Peace program. He
also suggested Greek Prime Minister Konstandinos Karamanlis
investing in Kyrgyzstan to send the Greek goods to China via
Kyrgyzstan. He talked with Mayor of Athens Dora Bakoyanis about
Kyrgyz capital city Bishkek and suggested to make Bishkek and
Athens sister cities. Akayev was decorated with the Gold Medal of
Athens at the city municipal council. PSP, Interfax

2. PRESIDENT AKAYEV DISBANDS THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR GOOD
GOVERNANCE. The presidential administration announced on 1
November that President Askar Akayev signed a decree on 25
October on dissolving the National Council for Good Governance
following a recommendation of the Security Council's meeting held
on 23 October. According to the administration, it was done to
perfect the state counter corruption policy and to regulate
activity of the Consultative Council for Good Governance.
AKIpress

The National Council for Good Governance was set up by an
Akayev's decree on 8 April 2003, its main aim was to fight
corruption. Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev chaired it, there were
25 members in the council. The Consultative Council for Good
Governance was formed later in 2003, about a half of its 11
members are foreign citizens, for instance, the US ambassador to
Kyrgyzstan, and Akayev himself chairs the council. An
international seminar on national and international practices of
fighting corruption was held in the Issyk-Kul Province on 14-15
October and head of the OSCE Center in Bishkek Markus Mueller
unveiled in Bishkek on 19 October its results saying it was
necessary to bring the Kyrgyz legislation on corruption in line
with the international norms.

3 November, Wednesday:

3. DONOR HELP COULD BECOME 'JUST AN INSTRUMENT' IN HANDS OF THE
HELPED COUNTRIES. President Askar Akayev said at the second
consultative meeting of donors in Bishkek that the donor help
must be oriented toward the consumers, which would change a
quality of reforms to reduce poverty. According to Akayev, the
reforms should base 'on internal impulses' and the foreign help
should be an instrument of development and a catalyst of efforts
in the society. He suggested to prepare the second National
Strategy to Reduce Poverty and said Kyrgyzstan achieved
sustainable situation in macro economy and met all the
obligations before the IMF. He said the Kyrgyz national currency
is the most stable one and the inflation rate is the lowest among
the CIS countries. In addition to it, Kyrgyzstan has 'a know how'
- the unique mechanisms of partnership between the state bodies,
civic society, private business and donor organizations. About 80
representatives of donor organizations participated in the
meeting, the first one was held in Bishkek in 2002.

Vice President of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia
Shigeo Katsu said at the meeting that there are many unresolved
tasks in the Kyrgyz program on good governance in spite of some
success. He referred to the last report by Transparency
International, in which Kyrgyzstan was grouped with the 25 most
corrupt countries of the world. According to Katsu, corruption is
the "single biggest brake for economic and social advancement" in
the country and fighting corruption and good governance are
"important for sustained growth and for delivery of better basic
services to the Kyrgyz people.". He also added, it is needed to
make objective assessment of realization of the National Strategy
to Reduce Poverty in 2003-2005. Interfax, AP

4 November, Thursday:

4. 'CENTRALASIATION' OF THE CIS IS UNDERWAY. The Russian paper
"Rossiyskiye Vesti" wrote on 4 November that a process of
'centralasiation' of the CIS began already - many CIS leaders
fear of 'the Revolution of Roses' in Georgia and Kyrgyz President
Askar Akayev said even that it is dangerous for whole CIS.
However, 'centralasiation' could lead to decomposition of all
state mechanisms, worsening the socio-economic problems and
ruining the whole state system in the nearest future. To receive
the article, please send a request to IdinovN@.... RV

5. AKAYEV CALLS 'TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL' A NON-TRANSPARENT
ORGANIZATION. President Askar Akayev said in Bishkek on 4
November at a conference on perspectives of economic developments
in Kyrgyzstan that 'Transparency International' is a non-
transparent organization and he does not understand this
organization. According to him, the World Bank put Kyrgyzstan in
its report Business 2005 in the second group after the developed
countries and it put the objectivity of the ranking by
'Transparency International' into doubt. It is a paradox, Akayev
said, as more we take measures against corruption as far this
organization put us from Finland. And in contrary, it puts the
other countries, which take fewer efforts than we, closer to
Finland. Akayev did not say which countries take fewer efforts
against corruption and were better in the corruption index. PSP,
AP, Interfax

Transparency International released the Corruption Perceptions
Index 2004 for 146 world countries in London on 20 October.
Kyrgyzstan was ranked the 122nd in it along with Bolivia,
Guatemala, Niger, and Sudan. Among the former Soviet republics,
the cleanest states are Estonia (the 31st place in the world),
Lithuania (44) and Latvia (57). Belarus is on the 74th place,
Armenia is the 82nd, Russia is the 90th, Moldova and Uzbekistan
are the 114th both, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are the 122nd both,
Georgia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are the 133rd all, and
Azerbaijan is the most corrupt - it is on the 140th place. The
cleanest countries in the world are Finland, New Zealand,
Denmark, Iceland and Singapore and the most corrupt are Nigeria,
Bangladesh and Haiti.

6. KYRGYZ AUTHORITIES ARE INSULTED BY COMPARISON OF THEIR COUNTRY
WITH BURKINA FASO. President Askar Akayev said at the same
conference in Bishkek on 4 November that Kyrgyzstan expects from
international organizations objectivity in observing the
processes happened in the country. He criticized the report by
Pradip Mitra of the World Bank made at the conference. Akayev
said, Mitra did not take into account the positive changes taking
place in the country - sustainable development, poverty
reduction, stable low rate of inflation, favorable governmental
policy for business - and referring to reports by Freedom House
is also unfounded because this organization criticizes everybody
whom it does not like. Kyrgyz participants did not like that
Mitra compared the situation in Kyrgyzstan with the ones in
Uganda and Burkina Faso.

Akayev also said Kyrgyzstan does not have a task to search for
the best world experience and design the model of development
from it, it needs to know reality. We are forced to use models,
which do not work here, Akayev said. Representative of the World
Bank regional office in Bratislava Johannes Lynn said at the
conference there would not be real integration without support
from the neighbors and world community, there would not be
effective fight against poverty without it. Department head of
the Asian Development Bank Adrian Ruttenberg, director of the
Eurasian project of the Cambridge University Armen Sarkisyan,
deputy chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development Stephen Frize participated. PSP, AP, Interfax

7. KYRGYZSTAN HAS ALREADY RECEIVED $500 OUT OF $700 MILLION
PROMISED BY DONORS. Regional director of the World Bank for
Europe and Central Asia Denis de Tray said in Bishkek on 4
November that $500 out of $700-million help promised at the first
consultative meeting of donors in Bishkek in 2002 for programs on
poverty reduction has already been given Kyrgyzstan and the
country received 60 percent of them as grants and the rest as
light loans. According to de Tray, the second national strategy
to reduce poverty in Kyrgyzstan should be more concentrated than
the first one, made for 2003-2005. De Tray added also there are
now about 200 projects in Kyrgyzstan financed by the world
community but not all of them are realized effectively, and to
achieve the aims, it is necessary to strengthen efforts on good
governance and fighting corruption but Kyrgyzstan is not an easy
country for business. Interfax

5 November, Friday:

8. NO QUORUM AT THE LOWER PARLIAMENTARY CHAMBER SINCE 19 OCTOBER.
The Legislative Assembly (lower chamber) of the parliament was
not able to discuss the issues of privatization in the energy
sector on 4-5 November, after a weeklong break. The next session
is set for 9 November. The assembly suggested to exclude some
strategic enterprises from the privatization list of the
government on 18 October and said some objects should be
privatized by individual projects approved by the parliament
instead of selling their shares. However, the government insists
on its program. Azattyk

More than 15 parliamentarians reject being registered at the
sessions since 19 October making no quorum when the privatization
issues are considered. Deputy Alevtina Pronenko said privatizing
in the energy sector "may have a considerable negative effect on
the social situation in the republic," and the government
conducts anti-popular policy insisting on the privatization.
Deputy Omurbek Tekebaev said the leftist forces keep principal
position and would delay the consideration as long as possible.
According to him, the governmental program is against the
interests of the people, there would be a little profit from this
privatization.

9. OPPOSITION UNITES AROUND BAKIEV. A founding conference of the
People Movement of Kyrgyzstan was held in Bishkek on 5 November.
It was announced on creation of the movement on 22 September.
Nine parties, namely the Communist and Republican parties, the
Party of Communists, and the parties Asaba, Democratic Movement
of Kyrgyzstan, Erkin Kyrgyzstan, Erkindik, Kairan El, and New
Kyrgyzstan, became members of the movement. Deputy of Parliament
Kurmanbek Bakiev, who served as prime minister from 21 December
2001 till 22 May 2002, was elected chairman of the movement on 5
November. Former Minister of Education Ishengul Boljurova and
deputies of parliament Azimbek Beknazarov and Nikolai Bailo
became his deputies. A 17-member central committee of the
movement was also elected. Former deputy of parliament Usen
Sydykov was elected chairman of the executive committee. Former
speaker of the parliament Medetkan Sherimkulov, former secretary
of the Security Council Misir Ashyrkulov and delegates from all
regions of the country took part in the conference. Several
organizations have already nominated Bakiev to the post of
president. AP, Azattyk

10. KAZAKHSTAN TAKES UNDER ITS CONTROL A GAS PIPELINE IN
KYRGYZSTAN. Vice Prime Minister Bazarbai Mambetov and Director
General of the KazTransGas Company of Kazakhstan Abai Sadykov
announced in Bishkek on 5 November that Kyrgyz part of the gas
pipeline Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty was given into asset
management of the joint venture KyrKazGas formed by Kyrgyzgas of
Kyrgyzstan and KazTransGas of Kazakhstan on the territory of
Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan intends investing $17,5 million in the
project by 2008. Kubanychbek Jusupov was appointed director
general of KyrKazGas. About 2,000 million cubic meters of gas
pass through the pipeline yearly and 600 million of them left in
Kyrgyzstan. Kabar

ALSO IN THE WEEK OF 31 OCTOBER - 6 NOVEMBER 2004:

11. On 29 October, President Askar Akayev appointed Kyrgyz
ambassador to Austria Zeinep Shaimergenova as ambassador to
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic too. Dilde Sarbagysheva,
consul general in Istanbul, was appointed Kyrgyz Ambassador to
Great Britain. AKIpress

12. On 1 November, Russian "Kommersant" reported that the plant
Dastan in Kyrgyzstan, state-owned shares of which the Kyrgyz
parliament recommends to sell to Russia, is a single plant in the
CIS producing torpedo VA-111 Shkval and the torpedo is to be
exported soon for the first time. To receive the article, please
send a request to IdinovN@.... Kommersant

13. On 1 November, Minister of Finance Bolot Abildaev took part
in Astana in the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Central Asia
Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC), organized by the Asian
Development Bank (ADB). Problems of fostering cooperation in
trade, energetics and transport were discussed. ADB President
Tadao Chino, senior representatives from the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, the International Monetary Fund,
the Islamic Development Bank, the United Nations Development
Program and the World Bank took part. CAREC program was launched
in 1997 and Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan participate in its 14 loan projects
worth $295.3 million total and 33 projects of technical
assistance worth $18.5 million total. Kabar

14. On 1 November, IRIN, the U.N.'s Integrated Regional
Information Networks, reported, "A potential landslide in the
central Kyrgyz province of Naryn could affect a uranium waste
dump, threatening up to 50,000 people…. There are four uranium
waste dumps in the vicinity of Min-Kush with a total volume of
800,000 cu m, of which 400,000 cu m are radioactive". To receive
the text, please send a request to IdinovN@.... IRIN

15. On 1 November, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the
Jaiyl District Court of the northern Chui Province ruled
deporting 20 citizens of Bangladesh who did not have any
documents to be on the Kyrgyz territory. According to them, they
came to the village of Sosnovka to find job after graduating from
an institute in neighboring Tajikistan. RIA Novosti

16. On 1 November, Zootbek Kydyraliev was re-elected chairman of
the Bishkek City Assembly, he was nominated by President Askar
Akayev. Kabar

17. On 1 November, a delegation of 33 representatives of the
Chinese Ministry of Education and the leading Chinese
universities arrived in Bishkek. They participated on 3 November
in an opening ceremony of the exhibition on education in China at
the National Library in Bishkek. Kabar

18. On 1 November, IRIN, the U.N.'s Integrated Regional
Information Networks, reported, "Following the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent economic downturn…. the
Luli community once again found itself in a state of decline"
There are "4,500 gypsies or "Luli" in southern Kyrgyzstan today.
An ancient nomadic people who moved around Central Asia for
centuries, they only acquired a more sedentary life during Soviet
times". To receive the text, please send a request to
IdinovN@.... IRIN

19. On 1-2 November, a seminar on corporate governance was held
in Bishkek. Vice Prime Minister Joomart Otorbaev, expert on
corporate governance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Henry
Shiffman, ADB consultant from Kyrgyzstan Arslan Kenenbaev, ADB
consultant from Tajikistan Tahmina Nurova, head of the Center for
Corporative Management Aleksandr Zazulsky participated. Kabar

20. On 1-3 November, UNDP representative to Kyrgyzstan Erzy
Scuratovic and Chairman of the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission
Sulaiman Imanbaev took part in Bishkek in an international
conference on gender issues organized with support from the
Swedish International Development Agency. Representatives of
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Sweden,
Tajikistan, Ukraine participated. Kyrgyzinfo

21. On 1-3 November, Deputy Minister of Transport and
Communications Aizat Ajykeev took part in Dushanbe in the third
meeting of the transport ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization. They discussed way of forming transport corridors.
Kabar

22. On 2 November, Moscow-based "Krasnaya Zvesta" reported that
social problems lead to extremism and emerging of terrorist
organizations and gave the words by Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev
who said that Kyrgyzstan could be sure about possibility of
guaranteeing the regional security only in cooperation with
Russia. To receive the article, please send a request to
IdinovN@.... KZ

23. On 2 November, the Committee for State Property stated a
tender to sell the state-owned 37.665 percent of shares of the
Dastan Corporation would be held. The parliament recommended the
government to sell the shares to the Russian group Eurasia Trans.
Dastan's annual production is expected to cost 593 million soms
(about $14.1 million) in 2004 making profit of 104 million soms
against a 96.6 million in 2003. Interfax

24. On 2 November, director of the Agency for Geological and
Mineral Resources Sheishenaly Murzagaziev said the Kyrgyz
government suspended a license for developing the Jerui gold
deposit issued to the British company Oxus in 2000, because the
company did not meet its obligations to put $100 million into the
Jerui project. There are 107 tons of gold in Jerui. Interfax

25. On 2 November, the CIS Statistical Committee said the
increase of the gross domestic product was 13.4 percent in
Ukraine, 12.6 in Tajikistan, 10.8 in Belarus, 10.2 in Armenia,
9.9 in Azerbaijan, 8.4 in Georgia, 7.0 in Kyrgyzstan and 6.9 in
Russia in the first nine months of the year. RBC

26. On 2 November, the CIS Statistical Committee announced
increase of the industrial output was 16 percent in Tajikistan,
15.7 in Belarus, 14.0 in Ukraine, 10.3 in Kazakhstan, 9.2 in
Kyrgyzstan, 7.9 in Moldova, 6.5 in Russia, 5.1 in Azerbaijan, 4.9
in Georgia and 1.6 in Armenia in the first nine months of the
year. Interfax

27. On 2 November, the CIS Statistical Committee said rate of the
consumer prices increased in January-August by 19.4 percent in
Belarus, by 12.7 percent in Moldova, by 10.6 percent in Russia,
by 8.1 percent in Ukraine, by 7.9 percent in Armenia, by 6.8
percent in Kazakhstan, by 5.7 percent in Azerbaijan, by 6.4
percent in Tajikistan, by 5.4 percent in Georgia, and by 4.6
percent in Kyrgyzstan. MFD

28. On 2 November, IRIN, the U.N.'s Integrated Regional
Information Networks, reported that the International Atomic
Energy Agency has been inspecting uranium waste dumps in the
southern Kyrgyz town of Mailuu-Suu. According to mayor of Mailuu-
Suu Tilek Akambaev, final test results will be released later in
November. To receive the text, please send a request to
IdinovN@.... IRIN

29. On 2 November, the Association of Noncommercial Organizations
appealed to the constitutional court asking to evaluate whether
the new law on amendment to the Election Code, according to which
the thumbs of voters should be marked during the elections, is
constitutional one. Interfax

30. On 2 November, Chairman of the Human Rights Movement of
Kyrgyzstan Tursunbek Akun said he filed two lawsuits against
President Askar Akayev - first one for persecuting himself and
second one for persecuting opposition and ordinary citizens.
Azattyk

31. On 2 November, deputy head of the presidential administration
Bolot Januzakov said a working group was formed in Kyrgyzstan to
prepare amendments to the law on guaranties to access to
information passed in 1997. Januzakov is head of the 12-member
group and the amendments should give clear interpretations of
such notions as state, commercial and official secrets. Interfax

32. On 2-3 November, a military delegation of Germany led by
General Jurgen Bornemann visited Kyrgyzstan. The discussed with
Deputy Defense Minister Zamir Suerkulov military situation in
Central Asia and Afghanistan, reforms in the Kyrgyz army and
perspectives of cooperation. AKIpress

33. On 2-6 November, a meeting of Kyrgyz and Uzbek experts on
delimitation of the state border was held in Fergana, Uzbekistan.
Disputed parts of the border near the Chechme-Bulak were
discussed. Azattyk

34. On 2-5 November, department head of the Committee for
Tourism, Sport and Youth Policy Bakyt Jekshenov took part in
Yerevan in the 12th meeting of the CIS council for youth affairs.
Kabar

35. On 2-7 November, the Slavic Fund of Kyrgyzstan organized the
Days of Slavic Culture with support from the Russian embassy. RIA
Novosti

36. On 2-8 November, children dance troupe Jash-Kyial and the
group Shattyk of the Youth Center Seitek in Bishkek took part in
Astana in the seventh international youth festival Shabyt. Kabar

37. On 3 November, "The Guardian" reported, "Russia, where some
20,000 nuclear warheads are sitting in 120 separate nuclear
weapons storage sites, is a failing state. So, too, are Nigeria,
Ghana, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, countries that have scores of
sites from which terrorists may get their hands on HEU (highly
enriched uranium) used for nuclear reactors there". To receive
the article, please send a request to IdinovN@....
Guardian

38. On 3 November, chairman of a committee of the upper
parliamentary chamber Janysh Rustenbekov stated against
privatization of the national communications operator
Kyrgyztelecom and asked the parliamentary lower chamber to
support his initiative to halt the process. He said Kyrgyztelecom
brings three-million-dollar profit yearly and, "Why sell the
goose that lays the golden eggs?" Interfax

39. On 3 November, 22 non-governmental organizations appealed to
the president, the government and the parliament protesting a new
version of the Tax Code, preparation of which is underway.
According to them, the rights of tax bodies are broadened too
much. Kabar, Azattyk

40. On 3 November, President Askar Akayev signed a decree on
introducing a post of state secretary as the highest
administrative position in each state body who would be
responsible for realization a state policy in public service,
prepare any appointments, transfers, rotation and dismissals of
public officials and who should not be replaced when a head of
the body is changed. PSP

41. On 3 November, the Russian Academy of Arts announced it
granted Kyrgyz Writer Tchingiz Aitmatov a rank of honorable
member of the academy. AKIpress

42. On 3 November, the site Business Press of Armenia reported
the programs of micro financing of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development work now in the four out of seven
provinces of Kyrgyzstan and there are 29 centers of crediting in
them. More than 10,000 loans have been given in two and a half
years and their total cost exceeded $17 million. To receive the
article, please send a request to IdinovN@.... Business
Press

43. On 4 November, Foreign Minister Askar Aitmatov said re-
election of George Bush as the US president would serve further
development of the cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and the USA and
Bishkek hopes Washington would continue supporting democratic and
economic reforms in Kyrgyzstan. Interfax

44. On 4 November, "Der Spiegel" wrote that according to Russian
political scientist Leonid Radzikhovsky, what is good for the USA
is good for Russia too and the Russians must agree with the role
for the USA as the main stabilizer in Central Asia and Middle
East. However, Russia meets the US attempts to minimize Russian
influence in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the magazine writes. To
receive the article, please send a request to IdinovN@....
Spiegel

45. On 4 November, the Austrian paper "Der Standard" wrote that
very few people in the world are interested in and know names of
leaders of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, portraits
of whom decorate the streets of Astana and Tashkent, Bishkek,
Dushanbe and Ashgabad now, like portraits of Lenin and Stalin did
before. To receive the article, please send a request to
IdinovN@.... Standard

46. On 4 November, an F-16 fighter of the Dutch Air Force group
deployed at the anti-terrorism coalition airbase near Bishkek,
ran off the runway at the Manas airport due to a front landing
gear's malfunction. The pilot was uninjured. AP

47. On 4 November, 15 public figures announced in Bishkek on
setting up the new movement New Course, which is for
constitutional change of power, strengthening the national
statehood and rooting out corruption. One of the leaders of the
movement, chairman of the party Fairness and Progress, former
minister of foreign affairs Muratbek Imanaliev said the movement
is not an election bloc. Deputies of Parliament Tashbolot
Baltabaev and Iskhak Masaliev, former state secretary Ishenbai
Abdurazakov, former member of the Presidential Council Salijan
Jigitov, former minister of finance Sultan Mederov and others are
members of it. To receive the texts of the statement and
political platform of the movement, please send a request to
IdinovN@.... Interfax, MSN, GazetaKG

48. On 4 November, drivers of the route taxi began a strike in
Osh City demanding to increase tariffs for taxi and cutting
prices of gasoline and spare parts. About 60 drivers held a
meeting in front of the city administration on 4 November and
continued the strike on 5 November. Kabar, AKIpress, Azattyk

49. On 4 November, President Askar Akayev received in Bishkek
Vice President of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia
Shigeo Katsu discussing possibility of broadening the programs
financed by the bank in Kyrgyzstan. PSP

50. On 4 November, the Ministry of Health Care announced the
insulin resources in Kyrgyzstan could run out in several days.
The Association of Diabetics of Kyrgyzstan stated it is necessary
to pass a law on diabetes. There are about 20,000 diabetics in
the country. AKIpress, Kabar

51. On 4 November, the AKIpress Agency reported there were
10,327.4 million soms (about $246 million) in currency in
Kyrgyzstan by 1 October, and 100.7 million soms of it was in the
commercial banks. AKIpress

52. On 4 November, "The Times" reported, "Authorities in
Kyrgyzstan have set free 114 of the 125 rare falcons - worth an
estimated $1 million (?540,000) - that they seized from smugglers
at a Russian military base in the former Soviet state last week".
To receive the article, please send a request to
IdinovN@.... Times

53. On 4 November, the Kabar Agency reported that the Moscow-
based paper "Express-Gazeta" released on 25 October a refutation
to its own report of 13 October that Kyrgyz President Askar
Akayev bought a flat in Moscow. Kabar

54. On 4-6 November, the Russian Drama Theater of Kyrgyzstan was
on tour in Novosibirsk City, Russia. NGS

55. On 5 November, Captain Ken Herndon of the U.S.-led coalition
troops at the Manas base said the base would get a $108 million
upgrade in the next several years to make troop dormitories more
permanent. Twenty dormitories to accommodate up to 2,000 troops
will be built and a medical clinic, gym, recreation center and
other facilities will follow. AP

56. On 5 November, Russian "Kommersant" and "Financial Izvestia"
on 6 November reported that a foreign investor is at law with
Kyrgyzstan using the international Charter of Energy, which
protects rights of investors. To receive the article, please send
a request to IdinovN@.... Kommersant, Financial Izvestia

57. On 5 November, the first part of the 21st session of the
upper parliamentary chamber, People's Assembly, ended. It began
on 25 October.

58. On 5 November, the Moscow-based "New Izvestia" reported
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan only supported an idea of
Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept citizens of the CIS
countries in the Russian army. Uzbek Minister of Justice called
it a law breach. However, some Russian generals want replacing
drafters in Chechnya by troops from the CIS. To receive the
article, please send a request to IdinovN@.... New
Izvestia

59. On 5 November, chairman of a parliamentary committee Ishenbai
Kadyrbekov said in an interview with the Institute for War and
Peace Reporting that Russian troops may have played a role in the
falcon scandal, "Given the high level of corruption in the
Russian army's officer corps, I wouldn't rule out the possibility
that foreign troops were involved in a deal of this kind". To
receive the text, please send a request to IdinovN@....
IWPR

60. On 5 November, press secretary for the president Abdil
Segizbaev said President Askar Akayev considers Interfax Agency
and the Russian media in a whole a priority for him in the media
sphere. Head of the Bishkek bureau of Interfax Igor Shestakov and
20 Kyrgyz media outlets and journalist received prizes and
diploma from Akayev on the eve of the Day of Press marked on 7
November. Interfax

61. On 5 November, President Askar Akayev appointed Islam
Ryskulov Kyrgyz consul general in Pakistan. Azattyk

62. On 5 November, Minister of Ecology and Emergencies Temirbek
Akmataliev said 143 emergency situations occurred in the country
in the nine months of 2004 and 85 people were killed in them.
About 1,610 families living in the dangerous sites have been
warned to move out and inhabitants of 356 houses were forced to
move out. In 1992-2003, 580 people were killed in natural
calamities and a total damage was $420 million. Kabar

63. On 5 November, IRIN, the U.N.'s Integrated Regional
Information Networks, reported that Boris Shapiro, head of the
Kyrgyzstan's National AIDS Center, is upset that his book
"Healthy Lifestyle" has caused a moral outrage in Kyrgyzstan. "It
proved so successful in neighboring Kazakhstan, education
authorities there had to print additional copies". To receive the
text, please send a request to IdinovN@.... IRIN

64. On 5 November, the sixth games of disabled people began in
Bishkek, and about 700 people take part. Kabar

65. On 5-7 November, the Emponi-Art Fund holds in Bishkek a
series of concerts devoted to the President Askar Akayev's
jubilee. Pianist Vladimir Sultanov from France and Kyrgyz
violinist Murat Rena (Junushaliev) who lives in Europe
participate. Akayev turns 60 on 10 November. Emponi-Art

66. On 6 November, President Askar Akayev and Prime Minister
Nikolai Tanaev met in Bishkek with President of the Asian
Development Bank Tadao Chino, discussing implementation of
projects in Kyrgyzstan financed by the bank. Before Bishkek,
Chino visited the southern Jalal-Abad Province observing the
Bishkek-Osh highway, reconstruction of which is financed by the
bank. PSP

67. On 6 November, representatives of the Sokh border guard unit
of Uzbekistan said the process of de-mining of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek
state border would resume after 1 January 2005. The process began
on 16 August but was halted on 12 October due to lack of
equipment. Fergana

68. On 6 November, a group of rescuers departed from Bishkek to
the southern Jalal-Abad Province because one of the four Russian
mountain climbers, Sergei Fetisov, 27, was killed by an avalanche
at the altitude of 3,500 meters on 3 November. They tried
climbing the Kyrbotoo Peak and one of them reached the town of
Kara-Kul late on 5 November only to inform on the accident.
Interfax

Regards, Naryn Aiyp.
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