The date of adoption of the new anthem was announced in Kyrgyzstan

Speaker of Jogorku Kenesh Nurlanbek Shakiev held a meeting on the issue of changing the national anthem.

The new national anthem of Kyrgyzstan should be adopted no later than April next year. This was announced by the Speaker of the Kyrgyz Jogorku Kenesh (Chairman of the Parliament) Nurlanbek Shakiev at a meeting dedicated to the issue of changing the national anthem, reports the public and media relations department of the Jogorku Kenesh.

Nurlanbek Shakiev emphasized that the issue of changing the national anthem should be carried out with the participation of the general public.

It was noted that appropriate commissions should be formed next week. It was added that it is necessary to conduct extensive discussions and organize contests by this date.

Melis Murataliev, the chairman of the National Commission for State Language and Language Policy under the President of Kyrgyzstan, was instructed to pay special attention to the text of the new anthem.

The initiative to change the anthem was put forward by Speaker of Parliament Nurlanbek Shakiev in October of this year. President Sadir Japarov also supported his proposal.

"It's better if we change the anthem too. What's wrong with updating it? Our current national anthem was created 33 years ago, during the years of [gaining] independence... Even if a hundred years have passed since then, will we still sing that we have gained freedom and become an independent country? - he said.

Japarov proposed to create an anthem that would encourage the youth and the future generation to be patriotic, as well as call everyone to unite and preserve Kyrgyzstan.

"Why don't we sing that we are an independent country, that we are a people with 5 thousand years of history? Of course, our current anthem will not be forgotten. As our first national anthem, it will go down in history in the archives," he said.

The national anthem of Kyrgyzstan was approved by the decision of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan on December 18, 1992. Originally it consisted of three verses and a refrain, but the second verse was removed by the decision of the Jogorku Kenesh on December 27, 2012.