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KYRGYZ OPPOSITION IS READY FOR DIALOGUE WITH PRESIDENT

RIA Novosti

BISHKEK, March 21 (RIA Novosti) - The opposition in Kyrgyzstan is ready for a dialogue with the President of the country, the leader of the People's Unity Coordinating Council of the republic, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, said on Monday.

According to him, the opposition is ready to discuss the situation with the head of the state and to find a compromise for the sake of stabilizing the situation. "However," he continued, "Askar Akayev does not even try to start a dialogue."

At the present moment, the opinion of official Bishkek is expressed by the Prime Minister, the State Secretary and deputy head of the presidential administration, he said. "But these are not the people who can take decisions in this situation," Kurmanbek Bakiyev said.

"Today, everything depends on what Akayev will decide. It is necessary for him to understand the necessity of starting talking with the opposition," he underscored. In the opinion of the opposition politician, "the entire entourage of the President at the present moment either does not do anything, or, if it acts, it does it clumsily."

He said that the meetings which are going on in the southern regions of Kyrgyzstan are not of an interethnic character, they are political, a reaction to the results of the parliamentary elections.

"Such elections have never taken place in the history of Kyrgyzstan. This time, the task was to bar the way for the opposition to the parliament," Kurmanbek Bakiyev underscored.

He expressed bewilderment at the position of the authorities. "What would happen after all if some dozen representatives of the opposition were elected to the parliament?" he said in perplexity.

In his opinion, the events in the city of Dzhalal Abad began when the people. dissatisfied with the results of the elections, came to the regional governor to tell him about the violations during the election campaign. However, the authorities, as Kurmanbek Bakiyev asserts, refused to talk with the population. It was then that the people started to demand the resignation of the governor, and on March 4 occupied the building of the regional administration.

The parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan had two rounds: on February 27 and on March 13. About 400 candidates contended for 75 parliamentary seats. Pro-governmental and neutral deputies received the majority (90%) of the seats.

Askar Akayev's daughter and son have also been elected. The supporters of the failed contenders, the majority of whom are representatives of the opposition, have started mass actions for annulling the results of the elections.