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Top U.S. envoy in Kyrgyzstan for talks after revolt
Maria Golovnina and Olga Dzyubenko
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BISHKEK (Reuters) - A top U.S. diplomat arrived for talks with Kyrgyzstan's interim leaders on Wednesday about defusing a crisis in the Central Asian country, where Washington rents an air base to back its war effort in Afghanistan.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, whose government has close ties with the interim leaders and sees Kyrgyzstan as part of its post-Soviet sphere of influence, said the turmoil could result in a civil war and produce a "second Afghanistan."
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake became the most high-profile American official to visit Kyrgyzstan since violent protests toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on April 7. The U.S. embassy said Blake arrived in the former Soviet republic overnight and Kyrgyz officials said he was due to meet interim leader Roza Otunbayeva for talks later in the day.
The future of the U.S. Manas air base is certain to top the agenda for the talks in the capital Bishkek, where streets are still littered with debris after last week's uprising in which 83 people were killed. Bakiyev fled to his southern stronghold in Jalalabad after troops fired on protesters on April 7 and has refused to leave the mountainous country or resign.
The self-proclaimed government in Bishkek has threatened to send forces to detain Bakiyev if he does not quit voluntarily.
Raising for the first time the possibility of ceding power, Bakiyev said in his home village of Teyyit on Tuesday that he might resign if the new government guaranteed his safety.
Officials in the interim government said that a delegation was in place in the south to initiate talks, offering the prospect of a peaceful exit from a week-long crisis that has gripped the ethnically divided nation.
Washington is concerned the crisis would affect its five-year lease deal with Kyrgyzstan for use of the Manas air base. After last week's upheaval, members of Otunbayeva's government had suggested the lease would be shortened.
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Suggesting on Tuesday that it was time for Bakiyev to make way, Medvedev said: "As I understand it Kyrgyzstan is on the verge of civil war."
Medevedev told an audience at a think-tank in Washington, where he was attending the global nuclear security summit, that it was Russia's task to help the Kyrygz people find a calm way out of the crisis.
Russia also has an air base in the country and has long put pressure on Bishkek to evict U.S. troops.
The interim government says it would pledge to abide by its agreements on Manas, but its pro-Russian sympathies have given rise to suspicions that the Kremlin may try to use the base as a lever in its relations with Washington.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call Otunbayeva after the revolt. Putin denied any involvement in Kyrgyzstan's upheaval. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed suit two days later.
Otunbayeva's deputy, Almaz Atambayev, was in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss financial aid from Russia.
Bakiyev has made a number of public appearances in his stronghold in Jalalabad, guarded by dozens of men armed with AK-47s and wearing dark glasses and camouflage jackets.
He has brushed aside threats from the new government, saying that troops had reached a nearby town before turning back.
"No, I am not afraid of any special operations ... The forces they have at their disposal are not able to fulfill this," he told reporters. "It's not worth trying to intimidate me or the population of the south with the use of armed forces."
(Writing by Maria Golovnina; editing by Ralph Gowling)
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Apr 14, 2010 2:08am EDT
Well all i can see i am sorry for the kyrgy’s they are nice people but they want to live in the past.
As an American tax payer it sad t see of the same, High state officials flying to Kyrgyszatan, offering more dollars humanatarian aid. This is the third time in less than five years we pleading to keep the base.
Are the people in the State department Stupid. Why dont you have an alternative base so when we pull out we can continue this war? ama where is your leadership?
Find another country that will take us.
In my opinion there is way to stop wasting my tax money. we are not welcomed in Kyrgystan, stop building the Manas Airport, stop all projects period.
We cannot change these people minds they prefer Russian to be their brother not the USA.
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the US is taking a page from China’s diplomatic book: deal with whoever is in power.
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