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Sunday, September 05, 2010 04:36 pm |
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SUBJECT: "INSTABILITY IN KRYGYZSTAN: THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE"
CHAIRED BY: REP. ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL)
WITNESSES: ROBERT O. BLAKE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA; ARSLAN ANARBAEV, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES, EMBASSY OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC; MARTHA OLCOTT, SENIOR ASSOCIATE, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE; BAKYT BESHIMOV, VISITING SCHOLAR, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)REP. HASTINGS: Mr. Pitts, thank you very much for being here. I'd like to open our hearing. Now, you all seem so far away. My goodness, I'm not accustomed to this hearing room. What is this here?
Anyway, welcome to the hearing on Kyrgyzstan. The country has been much in the headlines since the bloody uprising that brought down a president in April. In June, ethnic clashes in the south drew sad headlines all over the world. Apart from analyzing the causes of these events, this hearing is proposed to examine the prospects for better news in the future for Kyrgyzstan. ...
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