35 youth organizations unite opposed to OSCE police.

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BISHKEK, August 4 (Itar-Tass) - Thirty-five youth organizations in
Kyrgyzstan came together in a movement against the deployment of the
police force of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) in their republic, representatives of these organizations said at a
news conference in the Kyrgyz capital on Wednesday.
"The representatives said interim President Roza Otunbayeva, by making
the decision to deploy OSCE police in the republic, has exceeded her
authority. The leaders of many political parties of the republic and many
influential officials object to the deployment of foreign police; but
Otunbayeva did not heed their opinion," Mavlyan Askarbekov, an activist
from the headquarters of the movement, said on Wednesday.
In Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second largest city, public youth organizations
set up a special headquarters to resist the deployment of OSCE police.
Local media outlets reported that the representatives of the headquarters
plan to set up several tents on the central square and begin an indefinite
protest action.
Otunbayeva hopes that a consultative group of OSCE police (52 persons)
will begin work in the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions from the middle of
August.
Earlier, 350 people died and another 2,300 were injured in ethnic
clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in these two provinces.
The OSCE police will provide consultations to Kyrgyz law-enforcement
bodies and train them to enhance their professionalism.
Earlier, the deputies of the Osh Municipal Council voted against the
deployment of OSCE police in the country.
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