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Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan is a perfect case for
United States
Russia
to agree to tactical cooperation
yet that is not happening
Kyrgyz implosion impacts on regional stability, given the drug mafia and the militant Islamists waiting in the wings. Ethnic strife is opening the floodgates
only way out lies in collective security. But
most contentious issue. Who
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
problem
would tax Russian resources
Second
lacks a rapid reaction force. Third
legitimacy of the Kyrgyz
yet to be clarified
Fourth
quagmire
Finally
Tashken
feel uneasy
Washington
is passionately courting Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Clinton delegated Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake to visit refugee camps in the Uzbek region of Andizhan in the Ferghana Valley
speaking from a soil
Uzbek
suppressed a bloody uprising five years ago
irony was complete
Blake voiced
US demand for ''an international investigation
into the mayhem in Kyrgyzstan
United States
viewed
CSTO
vehicle
Russian domination
Washington counts on Tashkent to circumscribe
Moscow
The US
Organization for Security and Cooperation for Europe (OSCE)
appropriate vehicle of intervention by the international community
Moscow
objected
to use the OSCE for propaganda purposes under the garb of human-rights and election-monitoring functions or media freedom. So, why is the US proposing the OSCE
propaganda plane, it highlights the failure of Moscow and the CSTO to assume responsibilities
Moscow
butt of ridicule
as a bombastic regional power. Two, the CSTO gets debunked
vainglorious airs bu
lacks substance. Three, the US hopes to drive a wedge between Russia and
Kazakhstan, which
holds the
pos
of the OSCE
is hard-pressed to choose between the CSTO and the OSCE.
deeper US game plan
when Russia is
advancing
own proposal for a new European security treaty
if the OSCE is available
what
could be the raison d'etre of Moscow's proposal
OSCE's special envoy
Kimmo Kiliunen
OSCE is leading talks with
(EU)
beefing up security in Kyrgyzstan at a time when CSTO secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha is heading for Bishkek. The CSTO said in a statement in Moscow that a working group would evaluate the situation in Kyrgyzstan and "assist in law enforcement Russian position
Kyrgyz
should stabilize
themselves
US-Russia shadow play over a collective security
one constant
in favor of Moscow
Beijing supports the CSTO initiative
Chinese
so far
humanitarian assistance
flying out
nationals from
region of Osh
will be uneasy about the U
maneuvering
should
be consulting
SCO
first step to signal
China does not intend to sit back while the situation unravels
that Osh
an hour by flight from Urumqi
a Balkan-type crisis
nightmare to China
sensitive over the possibility of unrest among the Uyghur population
Beijing
counter the US strategy to project the OSCE into the security vacuum
first choice
CSTO
role for the SCO
SCO
statement identified that the ethnic strife was engineered with the intent of arousing a Kyrgyz-Uzbek "confrontation"
outside intervention isn't a crying need
"the stability of the situation in Kyrgyzstan is of great significance for peace and stability in Central Asia"
SCO has put its hat into the ring