On April 7, Roza Otunbayeva was nominated...
was the deputy head of the UN special mission to Georgia. In 2005, Russian paper Vremya Novostei quoted Otunbayeva as saying that during that conflict she was illustrated in papers holding a rifle as if she was connected with the Kodori Gorge shootout.Otunbayeva was one of the key figures of the so-called tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan in 2005, which led to the overthrow of then President Askar Akayev. Commenting on those events, Otunbayeva said in Vremya Novostei"s interview in 2005 that she and her team wanted to stand quietly on the square and wait as long as necessary to drive Akaev out of the government. "We wanted our revolution to be beautiful. In Osh, we searched for tulips everywhere, but the stores and markets were closed. Osh does not import Dutch tulips..." Otunbayeva said in 2005.
In December 2007, Otunbayeva became a member of the so-called Jogorku Kenesh, the Kyrgyz Parliament.
She is married and has two children.