L’action decision of the OSCE, Russia and the United States has avoided the worst in Kyrgyzstan
FITNESS EXFILTRATION to Kazakhstan, Thursday, May 15, Kurmanbek Bakiyev can boast of having a narrow escape. While the former Kyrgyz President (pictured above) still swaggering morning, demanding to recover his throne, the provisional government had decided his fate: Special Forces would intervene to stop the refugee satrap deposed without his stronghold Massadan (south). At the risk of causing a bloodbath, even according to the most pessimistic theses, precipitating the country's partition.
This nightmare scenario could be prevented by the combined action of the United States, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), whose headquarters are in Vienna. At loggerheads for the past ten years the role of this institution in the former Soviet sphere of influence, Americans and Russians see their interests converge in this case, because of the strategic importance of Kyrgyzstan. Monday, April 13 in Washington on the sidelines of the summit on nuclear security, U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev meet on Kyrgyzstan, for " spell the end of recess ," according to the expression a Western diplomat in Vienna. It is alleged that the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbaïev be overly timid in front of the smoldering crisis on its doorstep. However, Kazakhstan chairing the OSCE until 31 December: he must prove he can handle such a situation emergency. Called to order, Nazerbaïev dispatch a special envoy, Janybek Karibjanov, Bishkek. It joins forces with the head of the OSCE mission in Kyrgyzstan, Briton Andrew Tesoriere, leased to Moscow for its expertise and impartiality, and the German Herbert Salber, Head of the Centre for Conflict Prevention of the OSCE. The OSCE Troika will succeed in extinguishing the incipient fire. Karibjanov Tesoriere and have an address book so in Bishkek. They manage to convince Rosa Otunbayeva leave a way out of Bakiyev in exchange for formal letter of resignation signed by the hand of it. A phone call from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday, April 14 in the afternoon completing Bakiyev to persuade to let go. Thursday evening, a plane took off from the airport Djellalabad (south) to that of Taraz, Kazakhstan, taking Bakiyev, his wife and two young daughters into exile. Americans have "contributed to the logistics" of the operation, while the Russians "were providing security," says one to the OSCE, but no further details.
Praised for his decisive action, the OSCE is concerned about the fate of thousands of weapons stolen during the riots of April 7, and probably in the hands of mafia groups. Inventory of stolen property and locate will be the priority of the talks, which open today in Bishkek in the presence of Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kanat Saudabayev.
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