The provisional government in Kyrgyzstan will not allow the country to split up, the first deputy prime minster said during a televised Q&A session on Thursday.
"The idea of creating Southern Kyrgyz republic is absurd; our people will never allow this," Almazbek Atambayev said.
His comments came in response to calls by supporters of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to split the country on north-south lines.
Kyrgyzstan's opposition took power on April 7 amid violent unrest in which more than 80 people died.
On June 27 a referendum on the adoption of a new constitution, changing the Kyrgyz presidential republic into a parliamentary one and cutting the rights of the president, will be held.
Atambayev said he would not stand for president if the new constitution was approved.
BISHKEK, April 29 (RIA Novosti)
