SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION SUMMIT IN BISHKEK
(L-R) Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emoamli Rakhmon, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Afghan President Khamid Karzai pose for a group photo as they gather for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek on August 16, 2007. The leaders of Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states said on Thursday energy cooperation was the key to the security in their resource-rich region, which they intend to uphold through common instruments. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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Kyrgyzstan says a board headed by Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev will seek to renegotiate an agreement with the owner of the country's biggest gold mine.
Wages will be raised for currently low-paid judges working in Kyrgyzstan's corruption-prone judicial system, the country's deputy prime minister says.
A former president of Kyrgyzstan asked for forgiveness for his mistakes, which he said included promoting ousted leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
The Kyrgyz government called on the Commonwealth of Independent States to help have a brother of the former president returned to face murder charges.
The central administration in Kyrgyzstan announced Friday the president signed a decree dismantling the government after the breakup of a ruling coalition.
A spokesman for the prime minister in Kyrgyzstan said the dismantling of the ruling parliamentary coalition in Bishkek was illegitimate.
Azerbaijan state energy company SOCAR revealed this week it recently hosted top-level energy discussions with Kyrgyzstan officials on economic development.
Casualties were reported when gunfire erupted near the ill-defined border separating Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan, border guards stated.
Kyrgyzstan deserves credit for enacting serious reforms, though any development is overshadowed by human rights concerns, a top U.N. official said.
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