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US sends aid to Kyrgyzstan

10 April 2010 18:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The United States has started sending aid to Kyrgyzstan after the unrest this week in which scores were killed and saw the opposition seize control of the Central Asian nation, the US embassy said Saturday, APA reports quoting AFP.
"We have offered and intend to provide humanitarian assistance. We are already supplying medical supplies and assistance through the Transit Center at Manas", near the capital, Bishkek, the embassy said in a statement.
The embassy repeated an appeal to "all parties to refrain from violence and to continue to move Kyrgyzstan on is democratic path", following the bloody riots that toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
The base is the main transit centre for soldiers going to Afghanistan, and the US army confirmed that it had stopped the transport of troops to Afghanistan.
"The decision was made Friday evening to temporarily divert passenger transport flights", the spokesman for the Manas base said, reading a statement from the US army.
"The Transit Center at Manas is conducting other flight operations and continues to support operations in Afghanistan".
The base in Manas is key to operations in Afghanistan but it is badly viewed in Moscow, which considers it as a US intrusion in a region long-considered a zone of Russian influence.