Thursday, 25 January 2007

KYRGYZ PARLIAMENT VOTES TO REJECT KULOV\'S REAPPOINTMENT

Published in News Digest
Rate this item
(0 votes)

By empty (1/25/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Kyrgyz Parliament voted 25-38 in a secret ballot on Thursday to reject President Kurmanbek Bakiyev\'s proposal to reappoint Felix Kulov as the country\'s prime minister. Kulov needed to win the votes of 38 of parliament\'s 75 members to keep his post. The Kulov-led government resigned on December 19, 2006.
The Kyrgyz Parliament voted 25-38 in a secret ballot on Thursday to reject President Kurmanbek Bakiyev\'s proposal to reappoint Felix Kulov as the country\'s prime minister. Kulov needed to win the votes of 38 of parliament\'s 75 members to keep his post. The Kulov-led government resigned on December 19, 2006. The new Constitution adopted by the Kyrgyz Parliament on December 30 gives the head of state the right to appoint the country\'s prime minister with parliament\'s consent. (Interfax)
Read 7 times
More in this category: « AZERI, ARMENIAN MINISTERS TO HOLD KARABAKH TALKS IN JANUARY VISITING IRANIAN MINISTER SAID TO PLEDGE COOPERATION WITH TAJIKISTAN. »
back to top

Visit also

silkroad 

Joint Center Publications

Analysis Niklas Swanström and Leah Oppenheimer, "Invisible Ink: Looking for the Lost Trade between China, Russia, and Central Asia", ISDP Policy Brief, 13 March 2013.

1211Afghan-cover

New Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr with Adib Farhadi, Finish the Job: Jump-Start the Afghan Economy, December 2012.

 

Conference Report Cheryl Benard, Eli Sugarman, and Holly Rehm, Cultural Heritage vs. Mining on the New Silk Road? Finding Technical Solutions for Mes Aynak and Beyond (in cooperation with the Alliance for the Restoration of Cultural Heritage) December 2012.

Article Svante E. Cornell, "The 'Afghanization of the North Caucasus: Causes and Implications of a Changing Conflict", in Stephen Blank, ed., Russia's Homegrown Insurgency: Jihad in the North Caucasus, Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2012.

The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst brings cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.

Newsletter

Sign up for upcoming events, latest news and articles from the CACI Analyst