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Medvedev Orders Humanitarian Aid to Kyrgyzstan

12 June 2010 19:54 (UTC +04:00)

Medvedev regards rioting in the southern city of Osh as an internal matter for Kyrgyzstan, Timakova said. Interfax has put the death toll in the disturbances at 69 as of today.
The Russian president called a June 14 meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to discuss the unrest, RIA said, citing the Kremlin press office. The organization is composed of Russia and six ex-Soviet republics, including Kyrgyzstan. Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are the other members.
Earlier today, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said Russia wonâ€™t send troops to Kyrgyzstan to restore order.
Osh was a focus of unrest in April, when supporters of deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev clashed with groups loyal to the countryâ€™s interim government. Bakiyev fled to neighboring Kazakhstan after holding out for a week in the south of the country. He later took refuge in Belarus.
Kyrgyzstanâ€™s provisional government has declared a state of emergency in the city until June 20.