Kirgisistan
Aktuelle Einsätze
OSCE Police Advisory Group in Kyrgyzstan
(OSCE Other Field Activities)
Beginn: 07/10
OSCE Centre in Bishkek
(OSCE Other Field Activities)
Beginn: 07/98
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EU grants 4,55 million for conflict reduction in Kyrgystan (29.11.2011)
(Quelle:Reliefweb)
The EU has granted EUR 4.55 million to TASK, a group of international humanitarian organisations … to support their work reducing and alleviating the after-effects of the conflict in 2010 and preventing further escalation of conflicts.
Signs of official bias and abuse deepen Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic rifts (05.11.2011)
(Quelle:New York Times)
Nearly a year and a half after ethnic clashes ripped through this former Silk Road trading hub, ethnic Uzbeks, who suffered the brunt of the violence, face arbitrary arrest and often horrific abuse at the hands of predominantly ethnic Kyrgyz authorities, victims and local and international rights groups say. … The central government, still recovering from a violent coup in April 2010, has been largely unable or unwilling to confront the problem.
Ahead of Kyrgyz elections, Ban stresses importance of national reconciliation (21.09.2011)
(Quelle:UN News)
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.
Kyrgyzstan debates rival ethnic policies (01.06.2011)
(Quelle:IWPR)
Public debate about how Kyrgyzstan should manage ethnic relations is intensifying ahead of the anniversary of last year’s violence in the south of the country.
UN urges Kyrgyzstan to act on inquiry report (04.05.2011)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today welcomed a newly published report by the Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission (KIC) on inter-ethnic violence in 2010.
OSCE chief expresses concern over situation in southern Kyrgyzstan (04.03.2011)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, who is chairman in office of the … OSCE, made the comments to journalists in Bishkek on March 3 after visiting the southern regions.
Concern at South Kyrgyzstan unrest (02.03.2011)
(Quelle:IWPR)
Police regain control after protest gets out of hand, but incident highlights simmering ethnic tensions.
Kyrgyz President says won't run for second term (21.02.2011)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva says she does not intend to run in the next presidential election scheduled for later this year, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. "We have to demonstrate that we respect the laws we adopted in the national referendum on June 27, 2010, and organize and conduct a peaceful transfer of power," Otunbaeva told residents of Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region.
Kyrgyz probe faults Uzbek leaders, interim government over ethnic violence (11.01.2011)
(Quelle:Eurasianet)
An official probe into last year's deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan has blamed local Uzbek leaders and relatives of the former president for instigating the violence, but also chastised the interim government for failing to avert the unrest.
Blast in Kyrgyz capital raises tensions (30.11.2010)
(Quelle:IWPR)
Authorities accuse Islamic radicals of planting bomb, though others are not so sure.
OSCE to send scaled-back mission to Kyrgyzstan (29.11.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
An Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) official says Europe's main rights watchdog will send a scaled-down police mission to Kyrgyzstan early next year after postponing its deployment due to security threats. Herbert Salber, director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center, told Reuters in an interview that the OSCE planned to send 30 to 31 unarmed policemen to Kyrgyzstan in early 2011.
Final Kyrgyzstan election results announced (01.11.2010)
(Quelle:BBC)
Five political parties will be represented in Kyrgyzstan's new parliament, according to the official results of the 10 October election.
Kyrgyzstan parties agree vote recount (14.10.2010)
(Quelle:BBC)
Ballot papers are to be recounted in Kyrgyzstan's first parliamentary poll. The five parties that won seats in the new parliament agreed to a recount after a sixth party argued it had also made the 5% mark needed to gain seats.
Kyrgyzstan to vote amid fear of more violence (06.10.2010)
(Quelle:Reliefweb)
Kyrgyzstan holds an election on Sunday that interim leaders hope will help unite the country but opponents fear could trigger more violence and leave the south vulnerable to ethnic extremists and militant Islamists.
OSCE launches information campaign in southern Kyrgyzstan (27.09.2010)
(Quelle:Reliefweb)
An information campaign launched today with support from the OSCE Centre in Bishkek aims to provide the population of the southern Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces with relevant information. … The three-month initiative is part of an OSCE Centre in Bishkek project to address the information and communication vacuum in the south.
Uzbekistan urges investigation of Kyrgyzstan unrest (20.09.2010)
(Quelle:Reliefweb)
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov called on Monday for an independent international investigation of the June ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan that sent more than 100,000 refugees into his country.
OSCE/ODIHR deploys mission to observe parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan (07.09.2010)
(Quelle:OSCE)
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened its election observation mission for the 10 October parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan Divided Over Foreign Police Presence (31.08.2010)
(Quelle:Relief Web)
Plans to deploy an international police force in southern Kyrgyzstan in the wake of June's ethnic violence has caused an outcry from those who see the move as a green light for foreign interference. Many analysts believe the furore is more a reflection of political strife.
In Central Asia, a new headache for U.S. policy (31.08.2010)
(Quelle:Washington Post)
Just a month after agreeing to extend for a year a $60 million lease on a U.S. air base here, Kyrgyzstan's generally pro-Western but increasingly impotent president, Roza Otunbayeva, has retreated from U.S.-backed security programs that Washington hoped would help fortify a fragile Kyrgyz government.
Talks held over police mission in southern Kyrgyzstan (24.08.2010)
(Quelle:BBC)
The head of an international police force due to be deployed in southern Kyrgyzstan is in Bishkek for talks to ensure the mission goes ahead. It is still not clear when the small contingent of police officers from the OSCE, the rights and democracy watchdog, will carry out their mission.
The pogroms in Kyrgyzstan – new ICG report (23.08.2010)
(Quelle:International Crisis Group)
Without prompt, genuine and exhaustive measures to address the damage done by the pogroms, Kyrgyzstan risks another round of terrible violence. “The Pogroms in Kyrgyzstan”, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, highlights the risk of spiralling violence in the south of Kyrgyzstan and the central government’s loss of control over the region.
Swiss diplomat will head OSCE police advisers in Kyrgyzstan (13.08.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
Swiss diplomat Markus Mueller has been selected to head a team of 52 police advisers whom the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) plans to send to Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz activists protest OSCE police deployment (11.08.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
Dozens of activists have protested in Kyrgyz cities about the planned international police deployment in the south of the country, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
Kyrgyz elections due in October (11.08.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbaeva has announced that parliamentary elections will take place on October 10.
OSCE aims for police in Kyrgyzstan next month (04.08.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says it expects to have an advisory police force in southern Kyrgyzstan by early September, RFE/RL reports.
Kyrgyz Ombudsman's Office investigating deadly ethnic clashes (03.08.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
The Kyrgyz Ombudsman's Office has set up its own commission to investigate the deadly clashes last month between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks in the southern part of the country, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
Party time in Kyrgyzstan (27.07.2010)
(Quelle:Eurasianet)
It’s boom time for Kyrgyzstan’s political parties. When voters approved a new constitution on June 27, the country became the first parliamentary republic in Central Asia. Since then, the Justice Ministry has registered 148 parties to compete in elections scheduled for this October; more are reportedly waiting in the queue.
Uzbeks leaving Southern Kyrgyzstan in “mass exodus” (26.07.2010)
(Quelle:Eurasianet)
Many of southern Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic Uzbeks, facing continued harassment from local authorities, are pondering their future in the Kyrgyz Republic. … On July 21, repeating a request for police monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to help pacify the South, provisional President Roza Otunbayeva admitted her government does not fully control the region.
OSCE approves deployment of police advisers to Kyrgyzstan (22.07.2010)
(Quelle:RFE/RL)
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has agreed "to deploy without delay" a police advisory group to Kyrgyzstan. … The decision, agreed with Kyrgyzstan, envisages sending an initial 52 international police officers to monitor and advise counterparts in the Kyrgyz police force, with a focus on southern Kyrgyzstan. They will be unarmed and have no executive police powers.
Kyrgyz security forces committing human rights violations, says top UN official (20.07.2010)
(Quelle:UN News)
Security forces in southern Kyrgyzstan are responsible for human rights violations, ranging from arbitrary detention to torture, threatening the fragile peace in the area six weeks after it was rocked by deadly inter-ethnic violence, a top United Nations official said today.