On April 7, Roza Otunbayeva was nominated...

Following is a brief biography of Otunbayeva.

Otunbayeva was born on August 23, 1950, in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh.

She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University in 1972.

Otunbayeva held posts at Kyrgyz State National University where she worked as a senior professor and head of the philosophy department for six years.

Her political career began in 1981, when Otunbayeva served as the Communist Party"s second secretary of the Lenin regional council (raikom) of Frunze (currently Bishkek).

Otunbayeva repeatedly held the position of Kyrgyz foreign minister, being the first and the only female foreign minister in the history of modern Kyrgyzstan. She resigned from the Foreign Ministry in 1997.

In 1998-2001, Otunbayeva served as the first Kyrgyz ambassador to the United Kingdom after the fall of the Soviet Union.

In 2002-2004, her name was often related to the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in 2001, as she

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