Kyrgyz President agrees to resign

Kyrgyzstan’s President Askar Akayev, who fled the country last month after demonstrators stormed his offices, signed a resignation agreement today, a Kyrgyz lawmaker said.

Akayev signed the agreement a day after it was worked out in talks with a delegation representing Kyrgyzstan’s interim leadership, said lawmaker Sadyr Dzhafarov.

The resignation is effective from tomorrow, Dzhafarov said outside the Kyrgyz Embassy in Moscow.