KURMANBEK BAKIYEV HAS ALREADY LEFT KYRGYZSTAN

ArmInfo
2010-04-15 20:42:00

ArmInfo. Today the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Secretary
of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, issued the following
statement:

The OSCE web-site quotes him as saying: "Today, on April 15,
as a result of joint efforts of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan
Nazarbayev, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Dmitriy
Medvedev, as well as active mediation by the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe, along with the United Nations and the
European Union, an agreement was reached with the Interim Government
of Kyrgyzstan and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on his departure from
the country.

Mr Bakiyev has already left Kyrgyzstan.

This development is an important step towards the stabilization of
the situation, a return to a framework providing for the rule of law,
and the prevention of a civil war in Kyrgyzstan. In the interests
of all the people of Kyrgyzstan, we call on all political forces in
that country to ensure stability, public order and the rule of law,
and to address the most pressing social and economic problems as soon
as possible.

The OSCE stands ready to continue to provide further assistance
to Kyrgyzstan to move beyond the current political crisis towards
peaceful democratic development."