BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan’s interim president says voters have approved a new constitution that will allow the nation to form a legitimate government after months of turmoil.
President Roza Otunbayeva says the success of the referendum clears the way for holding parliamentary elections in the fall in this Central Asian nation. She said turnout was high at 65 percent.
The vote came just weeks after ethnic rampages that killed as many as 2,000 people and forced 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks to temporarily flee.
