Mrs Otunbayeva is the region's first female president Interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva has been sworn in as president of the troubled republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Mrs Otunbayeva took power after bloody street riots in April which ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
The former foreign minister becomes the first female president of an ex-communist Central Asian country.
The inaguration comes days after a referendum on the country's new constitution which makes it the region's first parliamentary democracy.
She took the oath of office at a Soviet-era concert hall in the capital Bishkek.
In April thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed and an estimated 400,000 people - many of them from the minority ethnic Uzbek community - were displaced.
The violence has abated but the country's Uzbek and Kyrgyz populations remain deeply divided.
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