INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Muratbek IMANALIEV, Erlan ABDYLDAEV

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Muratbek Imanaliev, President of the Institute of Social Policy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Erlan Abdyldaev, Expert at the Institute of Social Policy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

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After the well-known events of 24 March, 2005, the Kyrgyzstan leadership headed by Kurmanbek Bakiev enjoyed an extremely high advance credit of trust from the international community. Its ever-present resource potential could have brought the country very decent political and other dividends, if it, of course, were used sensibly and with a rigorous and constructive demonstration of the most vital elements of domestic policy.

In this context, the constitutional, administrative, and economic reforms conducted by the Kyrgyzstan leadership, the real drop in the level of corruption, the fight against organized crime (including the strong resistance to attempts by criminal groups to wheedle their way into the government), and the resolute efforts aimed at resolving other critical problems could have added significant “weight” not only to domestic, but also to intensive foreign policy maneuvering. But unfortunately, the republic’s leadership, engrossed in a fight for power against the opposition, could not resolve these problems, or at least designate the main approaches to their resolution. And as a result, in the eyes of its foreign policy partners, Kyrgyzstan is increasingly acquiring the image not only of an unstable, but also of an unpredictable state. The impression is often created that outside forces are not so much forcibly, as insinuatingly having an influence on………………

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