CSTO security council to hold consultations over situation in Kyrgyzstan.

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MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Security secretaries of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states will meet in Moscow for
consultations over Bishkek's request to introduce peacekeeping troops.
The consultations are convened on the initiative of Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently chairing the CSTO Collective Security
Council.
Late on Sunday, the Russian head of state had a telephone conversation
with Kyrgyz interim president Rosa Otunbayeva, Medvedev's press secretary
Natalia Timakova said.
"Otunbayeva informed Medvedev about the situation in her country. The
Russian president stressed the need for the soonest restoration of law and
order and the end of the inter-ethnic conflict, which had claimed lives.
He also said it was necessary solve the humanitarian problem," Timakova
said.
Medvedev told Otunbayeva about the sending of additional units to
Kyrgyzstan for providing security of Russian sites and servicemen's
families.
On Saturday, a battalion of the 31st separate airborne brigade arrived
in Kyrgyzstan because of the escalating tensions, Defence Ministry
spokesman Col. Alexei Kuznetsov told Itar-Tass. According to sources in
the Defence Ministry, the battalion numbers 300 servicemen.
According to latest reports, the death toll from inter-ethnic clashes
in Kyrgyzstan has reached 113. Some 1,400 people have sought medical
assistance, of whom 742 have been hospitalised, in the past three days, a
sources in Kyrgyzstan's ministry of health told Itar-Tass. Many were
hospitalised with fire wounds.
On Saturday, Kyrgyzstani interim president Roza Otunbayeva signed a
decree to sack all servicemen and law enforcement officers who refuse to
fulfil military commandants' orders. "This decree was issued to ensure
security of people, stabilize the situation as soon as possible, restore
the lawfulness and the law and order in several regions of the country,
where the state of emergency was declared," the press service reported.
The Kyrgyz leadership acknowledged that "some law enforcers violate and do
not obey to the lawful orders and demands made by a military commandant of
the region, where the state of emergency was declared." Therefore,
servicemen of the Defence Ministry, the Interior Troops, policemen,
staffers of the State National Security Service and other law enforcement
agencies, who were dispatched to the regions, where the state of emergency
was declared, "will be dismissed without the right for reinstatement" for
breaching orders.
The state of emergency and the curfew were declared in the regional
centre of Osh, the district centre of Uzgen, the Aravan and Kara-Suu
districts and in the whole Jalal-Abad Region.
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