Kyrgyzstan. The European Parliament supports an OSCE police mission

(BRUSSELS2) The European Parliament voted on Thursday; an "alert" resolution on Kyrgyzstan. It calls on the Kyrgyz authorities to carry out an impartial and independent investigation, with international assistance, into the violent events in Osh. It also asks the EU to make a triple effort: to continue humanitarian aid, to develop short and long-term reconstruction aid and, above all, to intensify its efforts to stabilize the country in view of the future legislative elections. of October.

Parliament therefore invites the High Representative of the Union and the Member States to "subscribe to and actively contribute to the rapid deployment of an OSCE police mission responsible for preventing further outbreaks of violence, stabilizing the situation in towns affected by the clashes, protecting victims and people the most vulnerable and to facilitate the return of refugees and internally displaced persons".

Parliament also considers "necessary for the European Union to strengthen its long-term commitment to southern Kyrgyzstan. The European Commission should "develop proposals for the redeployment of funds from the Development Cooperation Instrument" to be better able to react.

(NVP)