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Kyrgyz president highlights importance of national security
Kyrgyz Radio first programme, Bishkek
22 Oct 04
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev has said that national and military
security is a priority in ensuring stability in the country, Kyrgyz
radio reported on 22 October. Speaking at an unveiling ceremony of a
monument to military valour in the Kyrgyz capital, which was timed to
coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Batken events when there
were militant incursions in southern Kyrgyzstan in 1999-2000, Akayev
said:
"At present when solving the most important issues of ensuring
sustainable development of our country, we should not forget that
there is no tranquillity in the modern world and there are many
threats. National security and its most important component, military
security, are therefore indisputable priorities in ensuring people's
well-being and the state's stable development.
"Our activities under international agreements, collective efforts to
ensure security under the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty
Organization; members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Russia], the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization;
members are China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Russia] and the [US-led] international antiterrorist coalition are
already yielding results in the fight against terrorism, extremism and
other threats.
"The efficiency of international cooperation will only increase and
enable us to go to a new qualitative level in ensuring Kyrgyzstan's
national security and countering adequately existing and possible
threats to our country's peace and stability."
(The report lasted about 10 minutes; no further processing planned)
Kyrgyz Radio first programme, Bishkek
22 Oct 04
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev has said that national and military
security is a priority in ensuring stability in the country, Kyrgyz
radio reported on 22 October. Speaking at an unveiling ceremony of a
monument to military valour in the Kyrgyz capital, which was timed to
coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Batken events when there
were militant incursions in southern Kyrgyzstan in 1999-2000, Akayev
said:
"At present when solving the most important issues of ensuring
sustainable development of our country, we should not forget that
there is no tranquillity in the modern world and there are many
threats. National security and its most important component, military
security, are therefore indisputable priorities in ensuring people's
well-being and the state's stable development.
"Our activities under international agreements, collective efforts to
ensure security under the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty
Organization; members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Russia], the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization;
members are China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Russia] and the [US-led] international antiterrorist coalition are
already yielding results in the fight against terrorism, extremism and
other threats.
"The efficiency of international cooperation will only increase and
enable us to go to a new qualitative level in ensuring Kyrgyzstan's
national security and countering adequately existing and possible
threats to our country's peace and stability."
(The report lasted about 10 minutes; no further processing planned)