VARIOUS: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAS RUSSIA IS READ TO WORK WITH KYRGYZ OPPOSITION LEADERS

Record ID: 946977

  • Title: VARIOUS: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAS RUSSIA IS READ TO WORK WITH KYRGYZ OPPOSITION LEADERS
  • Date: 27th March 2005
  • Summary: (BN10) YEREVAN, ARMENIA (MARCH 25, 2005) (RUSSIAN POOL) 1. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AT NEWS CONFERENCE 2. REPORTERS AT NEWS CONFERENCE 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING: "I hope that the leaders of the opposition, realising their responsibility towards their own people will take the situation under their control as soon as possible. We know these people (the opposition) pretty well. They have been working in the Kyrgyz power institutions for a few years in the past they have done quite a lot to develop good relations between Russia and Kyrgyzstan and to establish present level of the relations between the two countries and I hope that in the future our relations will develop in the same direction - positive, to the benefit of the people of Russia and Kyrgyzstan." 4. REPORTERS AT NEWS CONFERENCE 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING: "As for the possible arrival in Russia of Askar Akayevich Akayev, if he decides to come to Russia we do not mind; this is quite possible." 6. PUTIN AT NEWS CONFERENCE 1.36 (W3) KIEV, UKRAINE (MARCH 25, 2005) (REUTERS) 7. SLV UKRAINE MILITARY BAND PLAYING FOR PRESIDENTS; SLV UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO AND HIS GEORGIAN COUNTERPART MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI REVIEWING A MILITARY PARADE; UKRAINIAN AND GEORGIAN FLAGS 1.59 8. MV SAAKASHVILI AND YUSHCHENKO SIGNING BILATERAL AGREEMENTS; SLV NEWS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY 2.38 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO SAYING: "A peaceful settlement to this conflict is the best way to keep a cold spot from becoming a hot spot. This appeal is particularly intended for the people who used to be in power who were the source of the trouble and who threaten to restore to arms." 3.04 10. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI SAYING: "I was expecting the worst to happen yesterday. I appealed to the Kyrgyz opposition to guarantee the safety of the President. Everything turned out all right; the main thing is for matters to proceed in a peaceful and stable fashion so that there will be no such extreme actions in the future. It is not in our interests. We are not exporters of revolution. Our revolutions are similar not because someone, somewhere made them up but because people react to injustice in the same way in all countries." 3.38 11. MV YUSHCHENKO AND SAAKASHVILI LEAVING ROOM 3.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: YEREVAN, ARMENIA / KIEV, UKRAINE
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  • Country: Armenia Ukraine
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