The President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev withdrew from the CIS summit in Minsk. Instead, the country is represented by the first vice -premier Djomart Otorbaev.
Official Bishkek gave no explanation about it. However, experts in Minsk have no doubt that the reason is a special relationship of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko with the former head of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Belarusian authorities took him and his family in Minsk after the coup in Kyrgyzstan, and despite the repeated requests of Bishkek, has not given him to the new government, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
During a press conference for journalists on the eve of the CIS summit Lukashenko in his usual condescending manner familiarly spoke of how he proposes to the new authorities of Kyrgyzstan to "turn the page of cooperation." "Guys, stop talking about Bakiyev," he said to the official Bishkek.
Besides Bakiyev, there is said another reason for Atambayev to ignore the event, which involved the President of Russia - yesterday the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the detention and deportation in Moscow of Kyrgyz migrants. In Bishkek they are dissatisfied with " biased attitude to them" by the Russian migration services.
The Kyrgyz authorities did not expect that so will be treated the citizens of a country, which has declared its intention to join the Customs Union, while other countries (Ukraine and Moldova) still have to be pushed to it. So that no-show of the leader of Kyrgyzstan at the CIS integration summit has a basis more serious than the disgraced ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev living in Belarus. The fact that Atambayev sent to Minsk instead of himself not even the Prime Minister, but his deputy, shows a cooling of relations between Moscow and Bishkek, and maybe a step back from the Customs Union, said RG.
On Thursday Minsk hosted a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the level of heads of state without the participation of the President of Kyrgyzstan. -0 -
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