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Kyrgyzstan calls on UN to develop standards to help retrieve funds stolen from public

The United Nations should develop clear standards and procedures to help countries retrieve public funds that have been embezzled by dictators and kleptocrats, Kyrgyzstan’s President Roza Otunbaeva told world leaders gathered for the General Assembly’s annual general debate today.

Ahead of Kyrgyz elections, Ban stresses importance of national reconciliation

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the leader of Kyrgyzstan to carry out the key recommendations of an independent inquiry into last year’s deadly ethnic violence in the country’s south as the Central Asian nation prepares to hold presidential elections next month.