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Kyrgyz president signs resignation
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, who fled the country last month after demonstrators stormed his offices, signed a resignation agreement Monday, a Kyrgyz lawmaker said.
Akayev signed the agreement a day after it was worked out in talks with a delegation representing Kyrgyzstan's interim leadership, said lawmaker Sadyr Japarov.
The resignation is likely to be a significant step toward restoring political order to the ex-Soviet Central Asian state, which was plunged into uncertainty after an anti-Akayev demonstration on March 24 exploded into a clash outside the presidential administration building. Riot police guarding the building fled and protesters rushed into the building.
Akayev surfaced in Russia several days later.
By stepping down, he would remove the last major obstruction to holding new presidential elections, which the interim government has tentatively scheduled for June 26. If Akayev did not step down, the legitimacy of such elections would be open to question. |
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