INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Askar BESHIMOV, Muratbek BAIKHOJOEV

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Askar Beshimov, Kyrgyz Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Muratbek Baikhjoev, Director of the Department of International Organizations and Security, Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

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The country’s foreign policy clearly manifested trends which indicate the beginning of a new stage in its international affairs. The change in regime is over, and although it is impossible to predict what will happen next, the main factors defining the state’s further development are already obvious. The republic’s current leadership has set itself three main tasks: augmenting diplomatic efforts to ensure Kyrgyzstan’s security; orienting foreign political activity toward creating favorable conditions for stimulating the economy; and forming Kyrgyzstan’s new image on the international arena.

Implementation of this course is being assisted by the integration processes taking place in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which have significantly intensified recently. In particular, an important event in the CIS was the regular session of the Council of Heads of Member States (Kazan) and Governments (Moscow). The main documents adopted at the Council, including those on cooperation in fighting terrorism for 2005-2007, counteracting illegal migration for 2006-2008, concepts of interaction in the military sphere until 2010, drawing up border policy for the Commonwealth states, and fighting violent forms of extremism, show that cooperation among the member states is intensifying. To these, we should also add the agreements on a unified budget for the CIS structures for 2006; on a set of mid-term measures for advancing competitive commodities manufactured by national producers onto the CIS domestic market and the markets of third countries until 2010; on the conception for…………………

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