During the last quarter of 2006, especially from November to December, political heat was at its zenith in the Kyrgyz Republic, pressure from opposition having led to an unjustifiably rapid adoption of a new draft of the Constitution. In the end, due to numerous legal contradictions in the new wording of the Constitution and an explicit lack of mutual good will on the part of both conflicting sides, this adoption resulted in the resignation of the Cabinet and brought into question the further existence of the parliament. Such a turn of political developments on the eve of the New Year again put the country in the face of another political crisis. The solution was found in the adoption of another draft of the Constitution on the 30^th of December, which returned to the President virtually all powers that he lost in November. However, as the majority of experts have noted, the adoption of the December Constitution and the resignation of the Cabinet have not resolved the contradictions between the Administration and the opposition, and a renewed exacerbation of the situation in the country is expected in 2007.

The instability of the internal political situation of the country in the fourth quarter of the past year, which was also typical of the whole year, put off in a certain sense the solution of foreign policy issues. A lack of predictability in the country and inconsistency in decision making by the leadership regarding internal political and foreign policy issues during this period has become more and more problematic for foreign the policy partners of Kyrgyzstan. As a result, in the eyes of these foreign policy partners, Kyrgyzstan is increasingly gaining the image of an unstable state and unreliable partner.