Kyrgyzstan to bow out of CSTO, CIS informal summits
20:1007/05/2010 MOSCOW, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan will not participate in the Collective Security Treaty Organization and CIS informal summits scheduled for May 8 as the country has not formed its constitutional government, a Russian presidential aide said on Friday.
"Kyrgyzstan will not participate in the CIS summit," Sergei Prikhodko said.
"They have not formed a constitutional government yet," Prikhodko said, adding that Kyrgyzstan had not so far raised the issue on the country's participation in the CSTO and the CIS.
The Kyrgyz opposition took power in the former Central Asian Soviet republic in early April after anti-government protests in several cities turned violent, particularly in the capital, Bishkek.
The country's ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed and fled the capital taking refuge in Belarus.
At the end of April, the interim Kyrgyz government published a draft constitution that cuts the powers of the president and transforms the state from a presidential into a parliamentary republic.
On June 27, a referendum on the adoption of a new constitution, changing the Kyrgyz presidential republic into a parliamentary one and cutting the rights of the president, will be held.
Kyrgyz interim Deputy Prime Minister Edil Baisalov said the country's interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva was going to Moscow to attend the Victory parade in Moscow on May 9. While in Moscow, Otunbayeva is expected to meet with several state heads who are also due to be in Russia's capital for the festivities.
Also, a total of 75 soldiers and several Kyrgyz veterans will participate in the celebrations dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe during World War II, which will be held on the Moscow's Red Square.
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