UN Security Council condemns violence in Kyrgyzstan
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The UN Security Council condemned on Monday continued violence in Kyrgyzstan, calling for calm and a return to the rule of law.
The Security Council held a closed door meeting Monday afternoon to hear a briefing from UN UnderSecretary-General Lynn Pascoe on the situation in Kyrgyzstan.
"The members of the Security Council condemned continued acts of violence in the Kyrgyz Republic and notes the need to support the delivery of humanitarian assistance in an urgent manner," Mexico's UN ambassador Claude Heller, the council president for this month, told reporters after the meeting.
"The members call for calm and return of rule of law and order and peaceful resolution of differences," Heller said, adding that the council will continue to monitor the situation in the Central Asian country.
As many as 124 people were killed and over 1,685 injured in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz health ministry said on Monday.
The current clashes followed violence in May when supporters of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev clashed with supporters of the interim government in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad.
An estimated 80,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Kyrgyzstan due to the clashes which started last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday.
