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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.
Protesters outside the office of the governor in Talas, Kyrgyzstan

Ban voices concern at recent unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan

20 May 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern about recent unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan, where at least two people were reportedly killed in ethnic clashes yesterday and a regional governor was attacked today.
Protesters outside the office of the governor in Talas, Kyrgyzstan

Ban welcomes arrangement enabling Kyrgyz ex-president to depart

15 April 2010
The Secretary-General today welcomed the arrangement between Kyrgyzstan’s Provisional Government and former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev that has enabled him to leave the country.
Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Kyrgyzstan: UN envoy meets with all parties to recent fighting

12 April 2010
A special United Nations envoy is currently in Kyrgyzstan, meeting with all parties to try to restore constitutional order while respecting the people’s will after deadly clashes that saw the opposition set up a provisional authority in Bishkek, the capital, and the President flee to the south.
The Bishkek White House, seat of the Kyrgyzstan government, president and parliament.

Kyrgyzstan: UN sends medical supplies to treat victims of clashes in capital

9 April 2010
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is rushing medicines and surgical equipment to help doctors in Kyrgyzstan treat the hundreds of casualties from this week’s deadly clashes that have led to the apparent overthrow of the Central Asian country’s Government.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) with President Kurmanbek Bakiev on his recent visit to the Kyrgyz Republic

Ban urges restraint after protesters seize Government building in Kyrgyzstan

6 April 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed concern over reports that demonstrators in Kyrgyzstan had seized a Government building and urged them to show restraint and respect the rule of law.