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Fri, 07/02/2010 - 00:32
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India to send humanitarian cargo to Kyrgyzstan - FM.

NEW DELHI, July 1 (Itar-Tass) - India's government will send a
humanitarian consignment to Kyrgyzstan hit by ethnic clashes, the republic'
s foreign ministry official said on Thursday.
Within days two cargoes with food, medicines, blankets and tents will
be delivered to Osh and Jalal-Abad.
"We cannot stay indifferent when Kyrgyzstan needs aid," according to a
statement of India's Foreign Ministry.
The damage from mass riots in Kyrgyzstan's southern regions of Osh and
Jalal-Abad was estimated at $1 billion. Over 1,300 houses and buildings
were set on fire. According to different estimates, from 300,000 to
700,000 Kyrgyz people became refuges.
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