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A special representative of the Turkish government, Fatih Jeylan, arrived in Kyrgyzstan to study the situation in the country and develop measures to help the republic. According to RIA Novosti, the representative met the head of interim government of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev.There were interethnic fights between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the city of Osh in the center of Jalal Abad region resulting in 187 people dead and 2000 wounded.
3 of 13 Azerbaijani students have been evacuated from the Jalalabadskaya region of Kyrgyzstan to Bishkek, the rest were flown to Georgia, Trend reports, citing Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elkhan Polukhov.Students Guliayev Javid oglu living in Baku, Gasanov Mekhdikhan Ali oglu living in the Tovuzskiy region and Kerimov Zeynaddin Nurali oglu living in Gubinskiy region are currently in the Azerbaijani embassy in Bishkek and will be taken to Azerbaijan.
The Turkish army carried out a land-air operation in northern Iraq against bases of the Kurdish Workers' Party (the PKK), RIA Novosti reports, citing the General Headquarters of the Turkish Armed Forces.
91 people were detained in Iran on Saturday on the anniversary of the presidential elections, which were followed by the sharpest political crisis in all the history of the Iranian Islamic Republic, ITAR TASS reports, citing ISNA and the head of the Tehran police, Hoseyn Sajaddiniya. According to Sajaddiniya, no serious fighting took place, there were only some skirmishes between supporters of the opposition and security forces on university campuses.
According to the data of the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan, 49 people had died in the disturbances in the country by 8 am local time, Interfax reports. 423 have been hospitalised, 654 have asked for medical help.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has added seven Frenchparliamentarians to the list of persona non grata over their visits toNagorno-Karabakh, Interfax-Azerbaijan reports, citing a ministrystatement.The ministry also earlier added five Russian State Duma deputies tothe list over their monitoring of recent elections inNagorno-Karabakh.
All Abkhaz and South Ossetian attempts to be understood in theirposition on the most topical issues concerning the vital interests oftheir peoples faced obstacles from Georgia and the US participants inthe Geneva discussions, as well as from the moderators (the UN, theOSCE and the EU), a joint declaration by Sukhumi and Tskhinvali says,News Georgia reports.
A policeman was shot in the leg on Wednesday in an operation to crackdown on protestors trying to blockade the Makhachkala-Astrakhanfederal highway in Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports, citing thepress-service of the Dagestani Interior Ministry.According to the ministry, approximately 300 people blocked thehighway in the Kizlyar region of Dagestan at 12.00 Moscow time,demanding the authorities find a lost resident of the village ofChernyayevka, Akhmednabi Najmutdinov.
The US Defense Minister Robert Gates is concerned about the tensionsbetween Turkey and Israel. He believes that Turkey ‘is heading east’and he believes that some European countries are responsible for thisby refusing to view Turkey as part of the West, Reuters reports.
Several Georgian social organizations had a demonstration in the center of Tbilisi, on Rustaveli Avenue stopping at the building of ‘Caucasia’ TV channel, News Georgia reports. The demonstrators demanded the members of ‘People’s Orthodox Movement’, ‘Union of Orthodox Parents’ to be released the NGO ‘Institute of liberty’ to be abolished for defying Orthodox values.
Armenia should make a conceptual decision on the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, the foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamedyarov said in Venice on Saturday. "If there is a conceptual decision on the part of Armenia, the question can begin to be resolved. If not, there will be difficulties"- Interfax-Azerbaijan reports his words.
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to make concessions to theblockade of the Gaza Strip. According to Israel's 'Channel-2',Tel-Aviv is ready to allow international inspectors into Gaza to checkhumanitarian ships, Netanyahu told the Middle East peace envoy TonyBlair.
Exposing extremists among migrants is an effective way to fightterrorism, the deputy envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District(NCFD) Arkadiy Yedelev told ITAR-TASS.Yedelev quoted an interview by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev withABC News that radicalism, fundamentalism, extremism are common amongsome people arriving from abroad. Yedelev said that foreignerssometimes join underground groups.
The US hopes that the UN Security Council will consider and approvenew sanctions against Iran nest week, the official spokesman of theWhite House Robert Gibbs said, RIA Novosti reports.The situation around Iran complicated after Iranian President MahmoudAhmadinejad declared on February 11th that Tehran had produced itsfirst batch of 20% enriched uranium and had the potential to producemore higher enriched uranium. He also denied accusations of nucleararms development.
The working commission on foreign relations of the Armenian NationalAssembly has rejected a bill on recognizing the independence ofNagorno-Karabakh, the authors of the bill, deputies of Heritagefraction, said.According to Armenia Today, 2 deputies voted for the bill, 1abstained,and 5 members of the commission were against it.Heritage will review the bill tomorrow and if members approve it thenit may be sent to the National Assembly.
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey accepted a declarationconcerning the attack on a Turkish humanitarian cargo ship heading toGaza by Israeli naval forces. The declaration involves the creation ofa commission to investigate human rights violation during the attack.The commission members will visit Israel, Vesti.az reports.
According to The New York Times, a document involving a plan to createsecret military bases in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan has beensigned in the USA. The newspaper also says that the White Housestarted an untraditional war last summer, involving secret militaryactions and gathering of information throughout the world.US officials refuse to comment on the issue. Experts believe that Bakuand Tbilisi have allowed the USA to use their territory for a strikeon Iran.
Urgent closed consultations on the incident involving the "Freedom flotilla" have been started by the UN. A statement from the chair of the Security Council could be made after the consultations. The permanent Palestinian observer in the UN, Riyad Mansur, expressed hope that the Security Council will condemn the actions of Israel and will do its best to punish those responsible. According to the latest data, 15 people were killed and around 30 injured during the boarding.
Moscow has expressed concern regarding Israel's attack on the "Freedom flotilla", "The Voice of Russia" radio station reports Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrey Nesterenko as saying. The Ministry condemns Israel primarily for the loss of life. It insists a detailed investigation into the event should be launched.
An extraordinary session of the UN Security Council is taking place today, devoted to the capture of the international flotilla heading for Israel with about 10 thousand tons of humanitarian supplies, RIA Novosti reports. The precise time of the meeting is not yet known. There were 10 ships in the "Freedom flotilla" captured by the Israeli navy. Last Sunday they departed from Cyprus to break the blockade of the Gaza strip. There were 600 human rights activists on board, the majority of them Turkish.
