[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: Kyrgyz poll hailed as 'progress'

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in his first news conference since the election, he chose to focus on the increasingly contentious presence of the US airbase in Kyrgyzstan. 

Mr Bakiev's comments echoed a recent call by the Central Asian grouping known as the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), which said the US should set a date for the withdrawal of its bases in both Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring Uzbekistan. 

Key SCO members Russia and China have been making it increasingly clear they want to limit the US presence in Central Asia. 



** Kyrgyz poll hailed as 'progress' **
Kyrgyzstan's presidential election showed "tangible progress" in democracy,  foreign monitors conclude.
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