ten years between a Kyrgyz President and the Uzbek President Islam Karimov on 3–4 October 2006. The two presidents exchanged views on a large number of political, economic, cultural and humanitarian issues. Jekshenkulov and Karimov signed six agreements, among them the most important on natural gas deliveries from Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan. According to Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry, they discussed cooperation "against terrorism, separatism, and narco-trafficking". Kyrgyz acting Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov on a visit to Russia in mid January 2007 met with members of the Kyrgyz diaspora in Moscow. Jekshenkulov told them he suggested to his Russian interlocutors that they authorize up to 500,000 Kyrgyz nationals to work in the country this year. Jekshenkulov said he discussed with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the possibility of granting citizens of both countries dual citizenship. He said he received encouraging signals from Lavrov. He retreated from his post as Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan in February 2007. Opposition leader Since May 2007 he became director of the International Agency of Development and Politics (IADP), located in Bishkek, which was founded by representatives of Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The main Kyrgyz opposition parties have held their joint gathering in Bishkek on 29 November 2008 under the title People's Grand Congress. The one-day congress, bringing together more than 1,200 delegates, was organized by opposition parties including the Akyikat Uchun (For Justice) Movement, Ata Meken (Fatherland) Socialist Party, and the Ak Shumkar (White Falcon) Party. On the eve of the convention, Alikbek Jekshenkulov, the leader of the For Justice movement and a former foreign minister, told RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service that the main agenda of the congress was to evaluate the current political and economic situation in Kyrgyzstan and discuss new concepts for further development. Since 24 December 2008 he became member of the Politbureau of the "United People's Movement" and a leader of the oppositional Party "Akyikat Uchun" (Russian: "Za Spravedlivost", engl.: "For Justice"). Jekshenkulov (as well with his family and his followers) was hampered several times by the law enforcement agencies for holding allegedly illegal rallies, for misuse of office during his time as Foreign Minister and for supposed involvement in crimes. On 9 March 2009 he was even arrested by police in Bishkek. He was suspected being involved in killing the Turkish businessman Servet Cetin. Nearly a year later on 16 March 2010 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment on probation. But the