From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 12:51:55 EST
RFE/RL KYRGYZ NEWS
13 NOVEMBER 2001, TUESDAY
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A Daily Review of News From Kyrgyzstan
1. Meeting of the CIS Collective Defense Treaty in Moscow.
2. EBRD president to Kyrgyzstan.
3. Meeting of chief bankers of the Eurasian Community in Almaty.
4. Human rights body releases a report on tortures in Kyrgyzstan.
5. Parliament approves the budget for 2000.
6. Vice prime minister holds a closed meeting on migration problems.
7. Central Election Commission prepares to local elections.
8. Protest picket in the southern town of Jalal-Abad.
9. Kyrgyzstan prepares to the Year of Mountains.
10. An exhibition of Kyrgyz cinema painters opened.
1. MEETING OF THE CIS COLLECTIVE DEFENSE TREATY IN MOSCOW. According
to the Foreign Ministry, a meeting of the CIS countries, bound in
the Collective Defense Treaty, would be held in Moscow on 19
November. Deputy foreign and defense ministers and deputy
secretaries of the security councils would discuss security issues
in the CIS and situation in Afghanistan. First Deputy Foreign
Minister Lidiya Imanalieva would represent Kyrgyzstan at the
meeting.
2. EBRD PRESIDENT TO KYRGYZSTAN. President of the London-based
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Jean
Lemierre arrives in Kyrgyzstan on 14 November. According to the
Bishkek office of the EBRD, he plans to meet in Bishkek with
President Askar Akayev. Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiev, other
officials, discussing aspects of cooperation between the bank and
Kyrgyzstan and implementation of the programs financed by the EBRD.
The bank supports 16 projects in Kyrgyzstan worth 175 million euro
total.
3. MEETING OF CHIEF BANKERS OF THE EURASIAN COMMUNITY IN ALMATY.
According to the National Bank, its Chairman Ulan Sarbanov would
take part in the third meeting of the Council of Bankers of the
Eurasian Economical Community (EAEC), to be held in Almaty on 15
November. Leaders of central and national banks of the member
countries would discuss plans of cooperation in 2002. The CIS
Customs Union was transformed into EAEC last year and Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are members of it. The
council was formed last January.
4. HUMAN RIGHTS BODY RELEASES A REPORT ON TORTURES IN KYRGYZSTAN.
The Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights released on 13 November a
report on tortures in Kyrgyzstan. It is said in it, "the Kyrgyz
government has not carried out the recommendations of the Committee
against Tortures in 1999 and UN Committee for Human Rights in 2000.
Thus, the number of cases of torture in Kyrgyzstan has not been
decreased. After the reports for UN on the Convention on Tortures in
November 1999 and on the Pact about Civil and Political Rights in
July 2000, the UN Committees gave recommendations to Kyrgyz
Government but it left on paper, as far as Kyrgyzstan has not
undertaken any activities." If you need the full text of the report
(five pages), please send your request to idinovn@rferl.org.
5. PARLIAMENT APPROVES THE BUDGET FOR 2000. The parliamentary
People's Assembly (upper chamber) approved on 13 November the report
by the government of implementation of the state budget draft for
2000. Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiev reported on it. According to
the report, the draft was implemented by 80.9 percent only and the
parliament rejected to approve it on 17 October. The government
planed to gain 9,888,300,000-som revenues (about $206 million)
against the 11,308,200,000-som expenditures in 2000. Also, the
government collected taxes less than planned by 909.5 million soms
last year.
Bakiev also said a lot of governmental bodies spent budgetary money
for not planned proposes and 220 documents on it have been given to
the Prosecutor General office. The latter filed several lawsuits on
it.
6. VICE PRIME MINISTER HOLDS A CLOSED MEETING ON MIGRATION PROBLEMS.
First Vice Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev held in Bishkek on 13
November a meeting on migration problems. Representatives of the
foreign and interior ministries took part in the meeting held behind
closed doors. According to Ilyas Amanbaev of the government, they
discussed issues of visa, registration, monitoring of the refugees
on Kyrgyz territory.
7. CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION PREPARES TO LOCAL ELECTIONS. The
Central Election Commission held in Bishkek on 13 November a meeting
on preparedness to the local elections set for 16 December. Heads of
administrations of villages and towns would be elected and 2,173
candidates for 460 seats of village leaders have been registered so
far. Only 144 of the registered candidates are women.
8. PROTEST PICKET IN THE SOUTHERN TOWN OF JALAL-ABAD. About 70 women
held a protest picket in the southern town of Jalal-Abad on 12
November. All of them were local traders working on the streets near
the Madumar-Ata market. The town administration decided recently to
clean the streets and to move all the street trade points to
Madumar-Ata or other markets in the town. Deputy Mayor of Jalal-Abad
Sadyr Aitbaev told RFE/RL correspondent on 13 November that the
administration tries to find a compromise on the problem.
9. KYRGYZSTAN PREPARES TO THE YEAR OF MOUNTAINS. Presidential
adviser Asylbek Aidaraliev held a news conference in Bishkek on 13
November announcing that presentation of the International Year of
Mountains would be held at the UN headquarters in New York on 11
December and then in Bishkek on 20 December. The UN named the year
2002 the Year of Mountains on proposal of Kyrgyzstan and, according
to Aidaraliev, Kyrgyzstan prepared a national strategy of developing
the mountainous regions.
10. AN EXHIBITION OF KYRGYZ CINEMA PAINTERS OPENED. An exhibition of
paintings, drawings and photographs by Kyrgyz cinema workers was
opened in Bishkek on 13 November. Works by Dogdurbek Kydyraliev,
Sagyn Ishenov, Erkin Sariev, late Suimenkul Chokmorov, and others
are exposed. Chokmorov was both prominent painter and movie star; he
was named the best cinema actor of the USSR four times. He died in
1992 at 53.
(Compiled and translated by Naryn Idinov in Prague)
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