KYRGYZSTAN PLACES ELEVEN UZBEK CITIZENS UNDER UN JURISDICTION
By empty (9/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan has placed eleven Uzbek citizens, held in a detention facility in Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, under the jurisdiction of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry\'s Migration Department Director Zafar Khakimov told a news conference on Wednesday that, \"Kyrgyzstan\'s Prosecutor General\'s Office on Tuesday evening made the decision to transfer eleven Uzbek citizens who have the status of mandate refugees, under the jurisdiction of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees,\" and that \"the refugees will be moved to third countries in Western Europe in a couple of days.\" Khakimov also said that the other four Uzbek citizens will so far remain in Osh.Visit also
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