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A young worker unloads UNHCR aid at Andijan airport in Uzbekistan.

Ban welcomes Uzbekistan’s efforts to assist civilians fleeing Kyrgyz unrest

16 June 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his appreciation for Uzbekistan’s efforts to address the crisis in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, where the security situation is reported to be fragile, days after deadly inter-ethnic clashes erupted.
Uzbek women refugees on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border.

Kyrgyzstan: Ban discusses crisis with leaders as UN mobilizes aid for civilians

15 June 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke with the head of Kyrgyzstan’s interim Government today regarding the crisis in the country’s south, as United Nations agencies launched operations to assist the thousands of civilians affected by the violence.
Kyrgyz border guards near the Uzbek Sokh enclave

Alarmed by inter-ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, UN rushes aid to victims

14 June 2010
United Nations relief agencies are dispatching emergency aid and staff to Central Asia, where tens of thousands of refugees have crossed into Uzbekistan as they flee several days of deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan.

UN chief confers with European security body on tensions in Kyrgyzstan

13 June 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon conferred with the chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the mounting tensions in Kyrgyzstan, as the United Nations assesses humanitarian aid needs arising from the violence that has reportedly claimed nearly 100 lives.

Ban calls for calm after renewed violence claims more lives in Kyrgyzstan

11 June 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for calm today following reports of renewed clashes and several deaths in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, the latest unrest to hit the Central Asian nation after the violent uprising in April that ousted former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev.