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CSTO preparing operation to provide humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan
MOSCOW, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - The Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) is in talks with the International Organization for
Migration and the International Committee of the Red Cross over providing
humanitarian assistance to the population in southern Kyrgyzstan and
refugees in Uzbekistan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha told
Kyrgyzstan Security Council Secretary Alik Orozov and acting Kyrgyz
Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev at a meeting on Wednesday.
"The parties discussed the current situation in Kyrgyzstan and arrived
at a joint opinion that the situation in the south of the republic remains
difficult and tense," the press service of the CSTO Secretariat told
Itar-Tass.
There is a potential opportunity that the situation may worsen, but
there has been a decrease in the incidence of lawlessness and clashes.
Law-enforcement bodies are gradually taking the situation under
control; the balanced and well-planned policy of the neighboring
Uzbekistan contributes to it. "However, it is a long way to complete
normalization," the press service reported with reference to Bordyuzha.
In this connection, the issue of providing assistance to Kyrgyzstan's
law-enforcement bodies on the part of CSTO member states is high on the
agenda.
"Such assistance will be provided," Bordyuzha promised.
Special attention was paid to the implementation of the measures of
collective response, which were worked out at the emergency consultations
of the CSTO Security Councils' secretaries on June 14, and passed to
presidents for decision-making.
Nikolai Bordyuzha informed Alik Orozov and Ruslan Kazakbayev that the
CSTO Secretariat had already begun to partially implement collective
response measures.
The CSTO secretary general also informed that Kyrgyz officials that
talks were underway with the International Organization for Migration and
the International Committee of the Red Cross over joint measures to
provide humanitarian assistance to the population in southern Kyrgyzstan
and the refugees in Uzbekistan. For his part, Orozov specified
Kyrgyzstan's needs.
Riots broke out in the southern regional center of Osh overnight to
June 11. The next day, they spread to the neighboring Jalalabad region.
The Kyrgyz authorities announced a state of emergency in the trouble areas
and imposed a curfew.
Tensions eased somewhat after the truce talks between the leaders of
the Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities. The authorities accused the brothers and
relatives of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of masterminding
the mass disturbances. Bakiyev said the interim government bears
responsibility for the riots.
Latest reports said some 200 people had died in the conflict in the
south of the country, and that another 2,000 had been injured. Thousands
of people left their homes and fled to other areas of the republic and the
neighboring Uzbekistan.
-0-myz
Organization (CSTO) is in talks with the International Organization for
Migration and the International Committee of the Red Cross over providing
humanitarian assistance to the population in southern Kyrgyzstan and
refugees in Uzbekistan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha told
Kyrgyzstan Security Council Secretary Alik Orozov and acting Kyrgyz
Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev at a meeting on Wednesday.
"The parties discussed the current situation in Kyrgyzstan and arrived
at a joint opinion that the situation in the south of the republic remains
difficult and tense," the press service of the CSTO Secretariat told
Itar-Tass.
There is a potential opportunity that the situation may worsen, but
there has been a decrease in the incidence of lawlessness and clashes.
Law-enforcement bodies are gradually taking the situation under
control; the balanced and well-planned policy of the neighboring
Uzbekistan contributes to it. "However, it is a long way to complete
normalization," the press service reported with reference to Bordyuzha.
In this connection, the issue of providing assistance to Kyrgyzstan's
law-enforcement bodies on the part of CSTO member states is high on the
agenda.
"Such assistance will be provided," Bordyuzha promised.
Special attention was paid to the implementation of the measures of
collective response, which were worked out at the emergency consultations
of the CSTO Security Councils' secretaries on June 14, and passed to
presidents for decision-making.
Nikolai Bordyuzha informed Alik Orozov and Ruslan Kazakbayev that the
CSTO Secretariat had already begun to partially implement collective
response measures.
The CSTO secretary general also informed that Kyrgyz officials that
talks were underway with the International Organization for Migration and
the International Committee of the Red Cross over joint measures to
provide humanitarian assistance to the population in southern Kyrgyzstan
and the refugees in Uzbekistan. For his part, Orozov specified
Kyrgyzstan's needs.
Riots broke out in the southern regional center of Osh overnight to
June 11. The next day, they spread to the neighboring Jalalabad region.
The Kyrgyz authorities announced a state of emergency in the trouble areas
and imposed a curfew.
Tensions eased somewhat after the truce talks between the leaders of
the Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities. The authorities accused the brothers and
relatives of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of masterminding
the mass disturbances. Bakiyev said the interim government bears
responsibility for the riots.
Latest reports said some 200 people had died in the conflict in the
south of the country, and that another 2,000 had been injured. Thousands
of people left their homes and fled to other areas of the republic and the
neighboring Uzbekistan.
-0-myz
