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Topic: Batken Province

	OSCE Centre in Bishkek - Batken Media Resource Centre
		The Batken Media Resource Centre (BMRC) was launched in 2005 as a joint initiative between the public association Osh Media Resource Centre and the public fund Baar with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Osh Field Office.
		Batken province is a newly-established administrative unit and a relatively young region.
		The Governor of Batken province in south-western Kyrgyzstan, Sultan Aijigitov (left) and the Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek's Osh Field Office, Jerome Bouyjou, cut a ribbon to mark the opening of the Batken Media Resource Centre, 3 May 2005.
	www.osce.org /bishkek/19627.html (672 words)

	Internews - Articles - KYRGYZSTAN: UN-sponsored radio targets youth
		BATKEN, 23 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - A UN-sponsored radio station in Kyrgyzstan's remote southwestern Batken province is working to encourage healthier lifestyles among the region’s youth.
		Altynbek Syrymbetov, a teacher and former school principal in Batken, said that Radio Salam could be instrumental in filling gaps in the educational area to a certain extent, which emerge due to a lack of resources.
		Shadybek Bakybekov, assistant governor of Batken province, told IRIN that the station was a forum of opinions, which not only educated people, but encouraged social interaction.
	www.internews.org /articles/2004/20041123_irin_kyrgyz.htm (848 words)

	UNICEF - Kyrgyzstan - Real lives
		Batken is the capital of Kyrgyz province, located in the heart of the Ferghana valley in the south of the country, bordering both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
		Batken is also a young town: around 50 per cent of the population are under 25.
		Batken's youngsters are fortunate enough to have the impetus that Radio Salam's frequency modulations offer on a daily basis; other young people in more remote parts of the province are denied this for the time being.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/kyrgyzstan_2590.html (1131 words)

	MAGIC - Radio Salam in Batken, Kyrgyzstan
		A journey from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to the southern province of Batken that should take three hours takes seven in the stormy summer of 2004.
		Batken province, the poorest province in Kyrgyzstan, is not an easy place to reach or to live.
		With little economic development in Batken, Radio Salam strives to raise and help solve the problems of the community, while also seeking support from the locals.
	www.unicef.org /magic/articles/radiosalam.html (801 words)

	Outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Batken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Batken provincial veterinary department said some 70 cases affecting livestock had been registered in the province's Batken and Lyaylyak districts.
		Also, all cattle markets in Batken Province have been closed and a ban imposed on the transfer of cattle from Batken to other provinces.
		Meanwhile, the veterinary departments of the neighbouring Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces have declared a quarantine on their borders with Batken Province, as well as with the bordering districts of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=37969 (510 words)

	The United Nations (UN) in Kyrgyzstan
		Batken is in the focus: A new programme of European Commission, Kyrgyz Government and UNDP on poverty reduction in Batken
		The festival was initiated by the Batken province state administration and supported by UNDP Kyrgyzstan and UNDP Tajikistan within the framework of the program of cross border cooperation in close partnership with the International Humanitarian Foundation “Meerim”.
		Governor of Batken province Askar Shadiev as well as all the representatives of the state administrations was dancing together with the children at the final discotheque.
	www.un.org.kg /english/unlink.phtml?224 (2972 words)

	Kyrgyzstan
		The OSCE found that while the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections, there were improvements over the 2000 elections, notably the use of indelible ink, transparent ballot boxes, and generally good access by election observers.
		Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven provinces (singular: oblast, plural: oblastlar); adminstered by appointed governors.
		Each province is comprises a number of districts (raion), administered by government-appointed officials.(akims) Rural communities (aiyl okmotus) consisting of up to twenty small settlements have their own elected mayors and councils.
	creekin.net /n100-kyrgyzstan.html (2464 words)

	OSCE Press release - OSCE Field Office promotes information access in south Kyrgyzstan
		BATKEN, KYRGYZSTAN, 2 May 2005 - In order to develop information access in remote areas of Kyrgyzstan, the OSCE Field Office in the southern city of Osh has supported the establishment of a media centre in Batken province, which will open on 3 May.
		The Batken Centre will organize training courses for journalists on covering elections, social, political and economic issues, and help develop their legal knowledge.
		The Governor of Batken province, Sultan Aigigitov, is expected to take part in the opening of the Centre together with district and provincial officials, representatives of international organizations and non-government agencies.
	www.osce.org /item/14096.html?print=1 (255 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		In the Osh province 1643 people were infected, while 734 people in Jalalabad, 347 in Batken, and 10 each in Chui and the capital Bishkek contracted the disease.
		Warm weather and the lack of necessary means to fight malaria threaten to intensify the epidemic in the country.
		106 of these people are residents of Batken province, 26 of Jalalabad, 10 of Osh, 6 of Chui province, 7 of Bishkek and 1 of Osh town.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=1758&SMSESSION=NO (626 words)

	FANTASIA -> Kyrgyzstan -> Regions -> Batken region
		Batken region is located in the very south-west corner of Kyrgyzstan almost completely enclosed by Uzbekistan and Tajikistan borders.
		There are still many territories that both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan pretend to own and it built a very coplicated border system when some small uzbek lands are enclaved on kyrgyz territory.
		The administrative center is the town of Batken.
	www.fantasticasia.net /?p=117 (195 words)

	UzbekWorld.com - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The IMU is used as one of the experimental instruments in the struggle for control of Central Asia's oil and gas reserves.
		In the mountainous terrain of the Batken province the border guard and Defense Ministry troops of Kyrgyzstan can hardly block all the mountain passes and prevent IMU guerillas from penetrating towards Batken.
		From this viewpoint, Batken is just a small episode in the geo-political history of the great powers, who do not even notice the expenses and losses of small countries like Kyrgyzstan.
	www.uzbekworld.com /news/viewnews.cgi?newsid984217170,98728, (1332 words)

	UNDP Preventive Development in the South of Kyrgyzstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Batken GU School Construction Project in Batken GorUprava - Currently, children of Batken GorUprava Have to walk 3 km to attend the nearest school.
		The CBO "Mektep" ('school' i Kyrgyz) established in Batken decided to mobilize resources for the completion of the school and worked out a detailed cost estimation and project proposal.
		Since March 2000, grass-roots based PDISK Community Development Officers are active in the ayil ökmötu (municipalities) of Uch Kurgan and Khalmion in Kadamjai, and in Batken town and Dara municipality in Batken district.
	www.pdp.undp.kg /old_page.html (876 words)

	UzbekWorld.com - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yesterday, the meeting began in the town of Batken, center of the Batken Province, and it continued today in the town of Haidarken.
		Valery Kolesov, adviser on defense matters to the governor of the Batken Province, told RFE/RL correspondent on 14 February by phone that the main topic of the discussions is delimitation of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state borders and the negotiations should end today.
		Authorities of the Batken Province claimed that Uzbekistan owes Kyrgyzstan about 9,000 million soms (about $180 million) for ground rent, included lease of gas fields.
	www.uzbekworld.com /news/viewnews.cgi?newsid982244498,14831, (279 words)

	Kyrgyzstan - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As of early 2006, however, initial public support for the new administration has substantially declined as a result of its apparent inability to solve the corruption problems that have plagued the country since its independence from the Soviet Union, along with the murders of three members of parliament.
		Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven provinces (singular: oblast (область), plural: oblasttar (областтар)); adminstered by appointed governors.
		Image:Kyrgyzstan regions2.png The provinces, with their administrative capitals, are as follows:
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Kyrgyzstan (2569 words)

	Kyrgyzstan , Landmine Monitor Report 2006
		Kyrgyzstan’s landmine contamination is concentrated in the southern Batken province bordering Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
		The aim was to reduce the number of casualties and the amount of unusable land in Batken province due to the existence of landmines, by educating the affected population to understand and manage the risk related to living in a mined area, as well as by identifying mined and non-mined locations.
		However, in May, two boys aged 17 and 14 years were killed as a result of a UXO explosion on a military training ground in Batken province.
	www.icbl.org /lm/country/kyrgyzstan (2315 words)

	Border Management & Conflict Prevention - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Kyrgyz Republic
		This Second Regional Early Warning Report is the continuation of last year’s report and the analysis and assessment of the overall situation in Batken province.
		As a conflict prevention tool this Regional Level Early Warning Report is the first attempt to assess the overall situation in Batken Province, in terms of the risk of increased tensions that may lead to conflict by measuring the sensitivity of the local population to the changes in their living environment....
		The Village Level Early Warning Reporting, conducted in pilot municipalities of Batken oblast is the first attempt made within the Project to support the Government of Kyrgyz Republic in concentrating its preventive development measures i...
	www.undp.kg /english/pubs7.phtml?l=0 (440 words)

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		What a disruption, and for what?" the deputy governor of Batken province, Tokto Ilimbezova, told IRIN as she waited in the heat for a border guard to return her passport as she returned from a regional meeting in Osh.
		In July 1999, Islamic militants from Tajikistan infiltrated the remote province of Batken and later seized five mountain villages, taking a team of Japanese geologists hostage.
		Three out of four villages in Osh and Batken provinces lack access to drinking water and typhoid is on the rise.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Soviet/Asia/040722ferghana.txt (1442 words)

	Kyrgyzstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven provinces (singular: oblasty, plural: oblastlar).
		The capital, Bishkek, is administratively an independent city (''shaar''), as well as being the capital of Chuy Province.
		Provinces of Kyrgyzstan The provinces, with their administrative capitals, are as follows: Bishkek (shaar) Batken Province (Batken) Chui Province (Tokmok) Jalal-Abad Province (Jalal-Abad) Naryn Province (Naryn) Osh Province (Osh) Talas Province (Talas) Issyk Kul Province (Karakol) Each province is comprises a number of districts (''raion), administered by government-appointed officials.
	kyrgyzstan.iqnaut.net (2547 words)

	Regional Preventive Development Network Forum III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mamat Aibalev held the chairmanship during the one-day meeting to discuss current issues in the province and deliver necessary information between interested parties attending the meeting.
		It was positively noted during the meeting that with the expansion of the Preventive Development into Isfana city municipality of Leilek district, the Preventive Development component now covers all the districts of Batken province.
		Mamat Aibalaev and his thanks to the participants for active participation in the development of Batken, and Kyrgyzstan in general.
	www.pdp.undp.kg /forumIII.html (325 words)

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		The region comprising of the Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken provinces, is populated by more than half of the country’s citizens, including the ethnic Uzbek Diaspora which makes 14% of the total population of the country.
		In 1995, the Governor of Osh province Janysh Rustenbekov was fired from his office after giving an interview to an independent Bishkek daily Kyrgyz Rukhu, where he outlined radical measures for settling the border dispute between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
		The same professionalism was displayed during the Batken war, when Osh TV’s reporter Zulfiya Kozhayeva made a report from the Kyrgyz village of Kara-Teyit bombarded by the confused Uzbek jets in the fall of 1999.
	www.unesco.kz /ci/projects/omrc/pechbillosheng/pubister6.htm (2159 words)

	Central Asian Gateway
		Sogd province, Tajikistan and Batken province, Kyrgyzstan, August 10-23, 2004 – Under the slogan “Good Will and Good Fellowship - the Biggest Richness on Earth” the first International Youth Summer Camp has been carried out within the framework of the joint Cross-Border Project between UNDP Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
		The summer camp realized into two groups in the recreation zone “Buhta mirnaya” at the seaside of Kayrakum water reservoir in Sogd province in the Republic of Tajikistan and in the children’s convalescent home “Belek” in Leylek district, Batken province of the Kyrgyz Republic.
		The main objectives of these summer camps are to broaden cross-border cooperation between cross-border communities of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, strengthen peaceful relations and mutual understanding among youth and school children, and support peaceful initiatives and social harmony in Ferghana Valley.
	www.cagateway.org /calendar.php?day=2004-08-20&lng=1 (145 words)

	Politics :: Государственный интернет портал :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On October 12, 1999, the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan approved a law to separate 3 districts in the remote South West of Kyrgyzstan from Osh province, and turn them into a new, seventh province: Batken.
		This was done because Batken and South West Kyrgyzstan, due to their complex political geography, have special development priorities.
		In 2000, a United Nations Liaison Office was established in Batken.
	www.gov.kg /index.php?name=EZCMS&menu=37&page_id=99 (713 words)

	ECCP
		Observers are witnessing a rural exodus to Osh in Kyrgyzstan, especially from the Batken province and among ethnic Kyrgyz who reside in Tajikistan, to Khujand in Tajikistan from the Jirgatal and Murghab regions, and to Andijan, Ferghana, and Namangan provinces in Uzbekistan.
		Following their incursions into the Batken region in Kyrgyzstan in 2000 and 2001, and under strong pressure from neighboring Central Asian states, the government of Tajikistan is reported to have expelled the IMU's leader and some of his followers, who were flown aboard Russian helicopters to Afghanistan.
		Though only focusing on four municipalities in the Batken province in south Kyrgyzstan, it is hoped that in the future this program will extend to other areas in the south of the country as well as to Tajikistan.
	www.conflict-prevention.net /page.php?id=40&formid=73&action=show&surveyid=30 (11479 words)

	www.kyrgyz-web.com
		Abad Province on 17 and 18 March and killed five demonstrators.
		incumbent Governor of the southern Batken Province Mamat Aibalaev as
		According to Batken officials, a bus with Kyrgyz citizens was
	www.kyrgyz-web.com /news_arch.php?day=12102002 (1002 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		If you have to go to Batken, the capital of Kyrgyzstan’s southernmost Batken province that borders Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, you could be in for a long ride.
		But while it takes a long time for the Uzbek, Tajik and Kyrgyz commissions to come to a compromise over the demarcation of disputed territories, the people of the enclaves and of Batken are getting more and more isolated.
		For the end of October, a conference is scheduled about the problems in Batken and adjoining Tajik and Uzbek areas.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=3782&SMSESSION=NO (976 words)

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