Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has offered 10 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid for Kyrgyzstan. The promise came at a plenary session of an informal meeting of top diplomats from the members and partners of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe held outside Almaty. Kazakh President, whose country holds the rotating OSCE presidency, warned that the tentative stability in the country might break up anytime as competition among Kyrgyzstan's political parties heats up in the run-up to the October parliamentary elections.OSCE has agreed to send a 52-strong police force to southern Kyrgyzstan, after inter-ethnic clashes. Up to 2,000 people may have died last month in violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. Speaking ahead of the summit yesterday, Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva said the OSCE force would be mainly responsible for training local police.
News On AIR | July 17, 2010 6:58 PM
Kazakh Prez offers $10 million emergency aid to Kyrgyzstan