The Foreign Policy of the Kyrgyz during the Soviet Period

The foreign policy of the Kyrgyz SSR was built in accordance with the foreign policy course of the USSR. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the republic. The ministry's staff consisted of five to six people.

In 1985, a new political leadership came to power in the USSR, headed by M. S. Gorbachev. The restructuring of political, economic, and social life began. In Kyrgyzstan, as in all of Central Asia, this process was slow. Amid a wave of general democratization and under the influence of events in other Soviet republics, a presidential system of governance was introduced in Kyrgyzstan. On October 27, 1990, the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR elected Askar Akayev as the first president of the republic. On December 15, 1990, the Declaration of State Sovereignty was adopted in Kyrgyzstan. A turning point in the political life of the country was the August coup of 1991 in Moscow. Russia's exit from the control of the union center triggered a chain reaction in the union republics. On August 31, 1991, Kyrgyzstan adopted the Declaration of Independence. In December 1991, the USSR collapsed into 15 independent states, including the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.