Thursday, April 8, 2010

Ousted Kyrgyz president refuses to resign

Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said in a statement published Thursday that he would not resign despite fleeing the capital after a violent revolt in the Central Asian state.

"I declare that as president I have not abdicated and am not abidicating responsibility," Bakiyev said in the statement published by local news website 24.kg, considered the Internet mouthpiece of the Bakiyev administration.

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