Article: Interfax Central Asia Business Report (Daily News Briefs: JUL 18, 2002).(Second People's Kurultai (assembly) demanded that Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev resign)

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KYRGYZ OPPOSITION DEMANDS THAT AKAYEV RESIGN

BIHSKEK. July 18 (Interfax) - On Thursday, participants at the Second People's Kurultai (assembly) demanded that Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev resign, according to representatives of the committee for the protection of parliament member Azimbek Beknazarov.

The meeting took place Thursday in the village of Kerben, the regional center of the Aksyysk region in the Dzhalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan.

"Askar Akayev should be held personally responsible for the events that occurred in the Aksyysk region in March," according to the resolution, which the assembly unanimously ...

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