Kyrgyz authorities working to restore southern regions--Pres.

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BISHKEK, September 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The Kyrgyz authorities are doing
their best for ensuring the restoration and development of the southern
regions of Kyrgyzstan, affected by the inter-ethnic conflict, which broke
out last June, Roza Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan for the
transitional period, said in her report at a plenary meeting of the U.N.
Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, a representative of the Kyrgyz
presidential press service told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
"As a result of a bloody inter-ethnic conflict, unleashed by
destructive forces and the supporters of the overthrown regime, some 300
people died in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan last June, and thousands
more were injured. Some 2,000 houses and 327 communal and cultural
facilities were damaged or destroyed," president Otunbayeva said.
In this connection she expressed gratitude to all the countries, to
the U.N. agencies and international banks, which had given material and
financial support to the republic at that difficult time. According to
Otunbayeva, "they are now beginning to give humanitarian and financial aid
to us for the liquidation of negative consequences (of the conflict), the
restoration of security, of social and economic stability." She expressed
hope that the donor countries would meet the commitments they assumed at
the Bishkek conference "within the set time limits and in full volume";
they undertook to allocate 1.1 billion dollars for Kyrgyzstan.
"The Kyrgyz government, in its turn, will ensure full transparency and
a high level of control over the use of the assistance rendered to us,"
she promised. Roza Otunbayeva said it would be very important for
Kyrgyzstan to avail itself of the experience of the countries, which lived
through similar trials and which managed "to restore the structure of the
civil society, to rebuild the country after a conflict and to organise the
effective functioning of state bodies."
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