By empty (3/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ex-Foreign Minister Roza Otunbaeva told RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service on March 8 that the current government, which came to power after the ouster of President Askar Akaev, \"has not been able to get anything done.\" Otunbaeva, who played an important role in the protests that finally toppled Akaev on March 24, 2005, set the upcoming anniversary as a time for taking stock. \"If [the Kyrgyz government] doesn\'t do anything [by March 24], then we will appeal to the people: \'We\'re sorry this is the way things are.
Ex-Foreign Minister Roza Otunbaeva told RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service on March 8 that the current government, which came to power after the ouster of President Askar Akaev, \"has not been able to get anything done.\" Otunbaeva, who played an important role in the protests that finally toppled Akaev on March 24, 2005, set the upcoming anniversary as a time for taking stock. \"If [the Kyrgyz government] doesn\'t do anything [by March 24], then we will appeal to the people: \'We\'re sorry this is the way things are. The current government is not serving the people\'s interests. That\'s why we are going to be in opposition to them.\'\" But Otunbaeva stressed that she and Azimbek Beknazarov, who leads the Asaba Party, are not \"preparing any kind of revolution.\" She dismissed rumors of an uprising planned for March 24. In summation, she urged the government to move quickly to fight corruption and change personnel policy. (RFE/RL)