Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
12.06.2010 19:50
The community and people of
Uzbekistan express deep anxiety and concern about events occurring in
these days in the city of Osh, the south of Kyrgyzstan.
Unpunished facts of killings, violence, pogroms, arsons and lootings of
peaceful citizens, committed by bandit groups in streets and homes of
Osh, are stirring up resentment of the international community.
Especially, the sense of intolerance and serious alarm are aroused by
the fact that all these mass killings, lootings and arsons of homes are
carried out with regard to the Uzbek Diaspora, residing in the city of
Osh and Osh province.
There are all grounds to draw a conclusion that such actions have an
organized, manipulated and provocative nature, carrying a long-term aim
to instigate the interethnic clash, create unbearable conditions for
representatives of ethnic minorities who live in the south of
Kyrgyzstan.
We have no doubts that all this is carried out with instigation of
forces, whose interests are absolutely alien to the interests of the
Kyrgyz people.
All that is taking place today in the city of Osh does not, by no
means, correspond to traditional century-long and historically tested
relations of friendship and cooperation among representatives of all
nationalities and nations in Kyrgyzstan
We are confident that the people of Kyrgyzstan who experienced a lot of
trials, and its sound minds have sufficient wisdom and life experience
to halt the rampage of crime and havoc for stabilizing the situation in
the country and ensuring a peaceful and prosperous future of the
multiethnic people of Kyrgyzstan.
Tashkent, June 12, 2010