Kyrgyz president formally resigns after turmoil

2010/04/16 02:42:11 @Reuters: World News

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev formally resigned in a hand-written letter faxed to Kyrgyzstan's new leaders, officials said on Friday, allaying fears of civil war in the strategic Central Asian country. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EVd8HNI_F7k:DJM2RSjZBLw:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EVd8HNI_F7k:DJM2RSjZBLw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=EVd8HNI_F7k:DJM2RSjZBLw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EVd8HNI_F7k:DJM2RSjZBLw:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=EVd8HNI_F7k:DJM2RSjZBLw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/EVd8HNI_F7k" height="1" width="1"/
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